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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2021
Takayuki Hara, Kanagawa, JP;
Takayuki Hara, Kanagawa, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a moving image generation apparatus that generates a moving image having a normal angle of view from a plurality of panoramic images. The moving image generation apparatus includes a goodness-of-fit-index calculation unitconfigured to calculate goodness-of-fit-indices of camerawork types of a virtual camera with respect to the plurality of panoramic images, a type allocation unitconfigured to determine an allocation of the camerawork types to the plurality of panoramic images based on the goodness-of-fit-indices and a frequency of occurrence of each camerawork type, and a moving image encoding unitconfigured to create the moving image having the normal angle of view from the plurality of panoramic images with the allocated camerawork types.