US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Dec. 2 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and information processing system for generating a virtual viewpoint image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,859, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and information processing system for generating a virtual viewpoint image" was invented by Masahiko Miyata (Saitama, Japan), Yasunori Murakami (Saitama, Japan), Takashi Aoki (Saitama, Japan), Fuminori Irie (Saitama, Japan) and Kazunori Tamura (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a processor capable of generating a virtual viewpoint image based on a plurality of captured images acquired by imaging with a plurality of imaging apparatuses, and a m...