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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2010
Applicants:
Mehrdad Panahpour Tehrani, Saitama, JP;
Akio Ishikawa, Saitama, JP;
Inventors:
Mehrdad Panahpour Tehrani, Saitama, JP;
Akio Ishikawa, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
KDDI Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 15/40 (2011.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 13/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to an image generating apparatus for generating an image from a viewpoint specified by a user. According to the invention, the apparatus has a storage unit that stores a plurality of pre-images from viewpoints on predetermined lines and depth maps indicating a depth value of each pixel of a corresponding pre-image, and an image generating unit that generates a first image from a first viewpoint based on the pre-images and depth maps.