US 12,316,824 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 May 12, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/316,910.
Application 18/316,910 is a continuation of application No. 17/065,363, filed on Oct. 7, 2020, granted, now 11,689,706.
Application 17/065,363 is a continuation of application No. 16/303,477, granted, now 10,848,748, issued on Nov. 24, 2020, 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 2023/0283757 A1, Sep. 7, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 13/243 (2018.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); H04N 13/282 (2018.01); H04N 13/296 (2018.01)
CPC H04N 13/243 (2018.05) [G06T 7/73 (2017.01); H04N 13/282 (2018.05); H04N 13/296 (2018.05)] 11 Claims
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1. An image processing system, comprising:
a plurality of image processing apparatuses including a first image processing apparatus which determines a foreground object region in a first image captured by a first image capturing apparatus and generates first data based on the determined foreground object region and a second image processing apparatus which determines a foreground object region in a second image captured by a second image capturing apparatus and generates second data based on the determined foreground object region; and
an image generating apparatus configured to generate an image based on 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 generated second data from the second image processing apparatus, and transmits, to the image generating apparatus, the obtained second data and the generated first data.