US Patent Issued to Canon on May 27 for "Image processing apparatus, method, system, and storage medium to generate a virtual viewpoint image based on a captured image" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,820, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, method, system, and storage medium to generate a virtual viewpoint image based on a captured image" was invented by Shogo Mizuno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image processing apparatus predicts a virtual viewpoint in a second frame subsequent to a first frame in a virtual viewpoint image and a position of a three-dimensional subject model in the second frame. The image processing apparatus determines an image capturing apparatus from which a captured image to be used for generating the second frame is obtained from among the plurality ...