Patent ID: 9619886
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G06T

Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an input unit configured to input image information indicating a point-of-view position and a blurred state of an image based on a user instruction; an acquiring unit configured to acquire a first image of a subject viewed from a first point of view and a second image of the subject viewed from a second point of view different from the first point of view, wherein the first image and the second image have different blurred states from each other; a processing unit configured to change a blurred state of at least one of the first image and the second image; a determining unit configured to compare the first image and the second image after the blurred state of at least one of the first image and the second image is changed by the processing unit to determine image regions corresponding to the subject between the first image and the second image; a generating unit configured to generate a virtual viewpoint image corresponding to the point-of-view position and the blurred state indicated by the image information based on the corresponding image regions between the first image and the second image determined by the determining unit and the image information input by the input unit, wherein