ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,685, issued on May 6, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image processing apparatus, image generating method, and storage medium" was invented by Shogo Mizuno (Tokyo) and Atsushi Date (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is an object of the present invention to reduce a possibility that a subject (specific object) of a virtual viewpoint image and a virtual object area overlap. To achieve the object, the present invention comprises a first identifying unit for identifying a three-dimensional position of the specific object captured respectively from different directions by a plurality of cameras; a second identifying unit for id...