Patent ID: 7675540

Claim:
A concealed regions complementing system of free viewpoint video images having a sender-side apparatus and a receiver-side apparatus, said sender-side apparatus comprising: a reference video image obtained by shooting from one viewpoint, a depth map in which depths of the pixels in the reference video image are described, a background video image produced by the reference video image and the death map, a background buffer for storing the background video image, means which obtain a projection converting equation for describing the background video image in the background buffer, and means for transmitting the reference video image, the depth map and projection converting matrix in the projection converting equation, and said receiver-side apparatus comprising: means for receiving the reference video image, the depth map and a projection converting matrix in the projection converting equation from the sender-side apparatus, means for producing the free viewpoint video images and the background video image from the reference video image and the depth map, a background buffer for storing the background video image, and means for dynamically renewing the background buffer for each frame using the background video image, the video image in the background buffer, and the projection converting matrix.