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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2009
Applicants:
Mehrdad Panahpour Tehrani, Saitama, JP;
Akio Ishikawa, Saitama, JP;
Shigeyuki Sakazawa, Saitama, JP;
Inventors:
Mehrdad Panahpour Tehrani, Saitama, JP;
Akio Ishikawa, Saitama, JP;
Shigeyuki Sakazawa, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
KDDI Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0077 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10021 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relate 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 data of a plurality of images, and a disparity map generating unit that generates a disparity map. The disparity map is associated with a pair of images including a first image and a second image, and indicates corresponding pixels in the first and second images.