Patent ID: 8786718
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire captured images captured by a plurality of image capturing units for capturing an object from different viewpoints; a specifying unit configured to specify a defective image from the plurality of captured images; a determination unit configured to determine a weight for each captured image based on a position of the image capturing unit that has captured the defective image specified by said specifying unit; and a synthesis unit configured to generate a synthesized image by weighted synthesis of the plurality of captured images based on the weights determined by said determination unit, wherein said determination unit is further configured to select at least one captured image different from the defective image as a selected image from the plurality of captured images, and determine the weights for each of the defective image and the selected image to be smaller than a weight of a captured image that is neither the defective image nor the selected image, wherein said determination unit is further configured to determine a relationship between the weights and a reference viewpoint serving as a viewpoint of the synthesized image so that a gravity center of the image capturing units that have not captured the defective image or the selected image is set as the reference viewpoint.