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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2023
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Michio Aizawa, Kanagawa, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus: obtain information on a virtual viewpoint to generate a virtual viewpoint image, the virtual viewpoint image being an image of an object viewed from the virtual viewpoint, the object included in an image capturing region of an image capturing apparatus; obtain enlarged three-dimensional shape data representing the object in which at least a part of regions is greater than that of normal three-dimensional shape data generated based on images obtained by image capturing by the image capturing apparatus; and generate the virtual viewpoint image based on the enlarged three-dimensional shape data in a case where a visual field represented by the information is a panoramic visual field.