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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Inventor:
Kazuhiro Mihara, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/10 (2011.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06T 3/00 (2006.01); G06T 15/20 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23238 (2013.01); G06T 3/0043 (2013.01); G06T 15/205 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10004 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20004 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20021 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20068 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present technique provides a method of capturing a multi-viewpoint image of an object with a rotation axis of the object optionally changed by a user and an image display method. The present technique is a multi-viewpoint image capturing method including shooting an object from a plurality of different viewpoints, and capturing a plurality of still images, wherein the object is placed at a center of a virtually set ICO sphere, and during the shooting of the object, the images of the object are captured from a vertex of the virtually set ICO sphere toward the center of the ICO sphere such that the plurality of still images are generated.