Patent ID: 9088772
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image-capturing apparatus comprising: a plurality of cameras which are provided in a single body; an image-capturing timing control unit configured to control image-capturing timing of a plurality of groups of the plurality of cameras including a first group of cameras comprising two or more of the plurality of cameras that perform simultaneous image-capturing and a second group of cameras comprising two or more of the plurality of cameras that perform simultaneous image-capturing and are not included in the first group of cameras, wherein the first group of cameras performs image-capturing at a different timing from the second group of cameras; a distance estimation unit configured to estimate distance information of a subject at timings of image-capturing corresponding to the first and second groups of cameras from pieces of image data acquired by the simultaneous image-capturing; and a virtual viewpoint image synthesis unit configured to synthesize virtual viewpoint image data from pieces of image data captured by the plurality of cameras and the distance information estimated by the distance estimation unit.