Patent ID: 9554040
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A multi-viewpoint image capturing method for controlling an image capturing apparatus comprising: a camera for capturing an image of an object; an arm for moving the camera in a latitudinal direction; and a table for moving the camera in a longitudinal direction, in order to capture multi-viewpoint images, the method comprising: placing the object at a center of a virtually set icosahedron (ICO) sphere; in accordance with a central angle between image capturing viewpoints adjacent to each other, obtaining a number of divisions into which each edge of the ICO sphere is divided; setting image capturing viewpoints at vertexes obtained by dividing each edge of the ICO sphere in accordance with the number of divisions; setting latitudinal and longitudinal information of the ICO sphere to each image capturing viewpoint to control the arm and the table; moving the arm and rotating the table to set the camera at each image capturing view point based on the latitudinal and longitudinal information, the camera being controlled to move on a surface of the ICO sphere and being directed to the center of the ICO sphere; and capturing images of the object at the respective image capturing viewpoints.