US 12,346,545 B2
Image display apparatus, control method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for generating a virtual viewpoint image
Taku Ogasawara, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Apr. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/238,513.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-082818 (JP), filed on May 8, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0349620 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/04847 (2022.01); G06F 3/04845 (2022.01); G06F 3/0488 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/04847 (2013.01) [G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04806 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image display apparatus comprising:
one or more memories storing instructions; and
one or more processors executing the instructions to:
accept a user operation corresponding to determining a first parameter that designates an orientation of view from a virtual camera, the virtual camera corresponding to a virtual viewpoint image generated based on a plurality of images;
obtain a second parameter that is set in advance and that designates a plurality of positions of a target point corresponding to the virtual camera, each of the plurality of positions of the target point corresponding to one of consecutive frames and being different, the plurality of positions of the target point in each of the consecutive frames being on an optical axis of the virtual camera in each of the consecutive frames; and
display, on a display, the virtual viewpoint image generated based on the first parameter and the second parameter.