US 12,439,097 B2
Image sharing method and image sharing system, and storage medium
Eishi Takeda, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 1, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/593,792.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-035860 (JP), filed on Mar. 8, 2023; and application No. 2023-205438 (JP), filed on Dec. 5, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0305835 A1, Sep. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 21/218 (2011.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06T 15/20 (2011.01); H04N 21/2543 (2011.01); H04N 21/266 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/21805 (2013.01) [G06F 3/011 (2013.01); G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06T 15/20 (2013.01); H04N 21/2543 (2013.01); H04N 21/266 (2013.01); H04N 21/44218 (2013.01); H04N 21/8146 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image sharing method including:
generating first image data of an image from a viewpoint at a position based on image data obtained from a plurality of image capturing apparatuses that capture images of the same subject simultaneously;
setting a cyber space for viewing the first image data from a plurality of viewing apparatuses;
distributing the first image data to each of the plurality of viewing apparatuses;
obtaining, from each viewing apparatus among the plurality of viewing apparatuses, information on an avatar, an initial viewing position in the cyber space, and motion information of a viewer who uses the viewing apparatus for the viewing; and
sending, to each viewing apparatus, environment data pertaining to an avatar of another viewing apparatus that enters a field of view of the viewing apparatus in the cyber space, based on a viewpoint in the cyber space obtained based on the initial viewing position and the motion information.