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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2001
Shinichi Shimizu, Osaka, JP;
Yoshiyuki Miyagawa, Tokyo, JP;
Square Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Images at a source side and a target side are displayed as a dynamic image that can move in real time by fading out the last scene and fading in a new scene. In the case of changing a viewpoint of a dynamic image to be displayed on a screen, a dynamic image (image depicted from a source camera) depicted from a viewpoint before changing the viewpoint and a dynamic image (image depicted from a target camera) depicted from a viewpoint after having changed the viewpoint are translucently synthesized, and a synthesized image is generated. Thereafter, with respect to the synthesized image, the source camera image (one frame image of the dynamic image) and the target camera image (one frame image of the dynamic image) are reciprocally translucently synthesized while changing the transparencies thereof. The image display is enabled, in which the transparency of the dynamic image depicted from the view point before changing the viewpoint is faded out, and at the same time, the transparency of the dynamic image depicted from the viewpoint after having changed the viewpoint can be faded in.