US 11,689,706 B2
Method for generating virtual viewpoint image and image processing apparatus
Masahiro Handa, Tokyo (JP); Michio Aizawa, Yokohama (JP); Shogo Mizuno, Tokyo (JP); Katsumasa Tanaka, Kawasaki (JP); Akihiro Matsushita, Tokyo (JP); Keisuke Morisawa, Kawasaki (JP); Tomohiro Yano, Yokohama (JP); Mai Komiyama, Kamakura (JP); Kenichi Fujii, Tokyo (JP); and Atsushi Date, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Oct. 7, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/65,363.
Application 17/065,363 is a continuation of application No. 16/303,477, granted, now 10,848,748, previously published as PCT/JP2017/019085, filed on May 22, 2017.
Claims priority of application No. 2016-104435 (JP), filed on May 25, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0021803 A1, Jan. 21, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 13/243 (2018.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); H04N 13/296 (2018.01); H04N 13/282 (2018.01)
CPC H04N 13/243 (2018.05) [G06T 7/73 (2017.01); H04N 13/282 (2018.05); H04N 13/296 (2018.05)] 25 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing system, comprising:
a plurality of image processing apparatuses including a first image processing apparatus which generates foreground image data representing a foreground object region in a first image captured by a first image capturing apparatus and a second image processing apparatus which generates foreground image data representing a foreground object region in a second image captured by a second image capturing apparatus; and
an image generating apparatus configured to generate a virtual viewpoint image based on foreground image data generated by the plurality of image processing apparatuses,
wherein the first image processing apparatus is connected to the second image processing apparatus, and
wherein the first image processing apparatus obtains the foreground image data generated by the second image processing apparatus which is connected to the first image processing apparatus, and transmits, to the image generating apparatus, the obtained foreground image data generated by the second image processing apparatus which is connected to the first image processing apparatus and the foreground image data generated by the first image processing apparatus.