Patent ID: 8953046
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus for generating virtual viewpoint video including a plurality of frames at a virtual viewpoint by using a plurality of real images at a plurality of real viewpoints obtained by a plurality of cameras comprising: a memory; a processor coupled to the memory which executes the following: acquiring virtual viewpoint information given as a position and an orientation of the virtual viewpoint; selecting a camera for shooting an image to be used in generating an image at a virtual viewpoint in a frame from a plurality of cameras with respect to each of the plurality of the frames based on a positional relationship between the virtual viewpoint information of each frame and viewpoint information of the plurality of the cameras; and reselecting the camera selected for each of the plurality of the frames, wherein, if a camera selected for a target frame differs from a camera selected for a preceding frame of the target frame, and if a rate of covering an image at the virtual viewpoint of the target frame with a shot image of the camera selected for the preceding frame is greater than a predetermined value, the reselecting changes the camera selected for the target frame to the camera selected for the preceding frame.