US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 26 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,392, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium" was invented by Mitsuru Maeda (Tokyo), Koji Okabe (Tokyo), Hidekazu Kamei (Kanagawa, Japan), Hinako Funaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuya Ota (Kanagawa, Japan), Taku Ogasawara (Tokyo) and Kazufumi Onuma (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a management unit configured to acquire a plurality of material data for use in generation of a virtual viewpoint image based on a plurality of images captured with a plurality of cameras by imaging an obje...