Patent ID: 7532215

Claim:
An image generating apparatus for generating a visual field image seen from a photographed person who is photographed in at least one part of plural two-dimensional images, based on the plural two-dimensional images captured by plural image capturing apparatuses, comprising: a photographed person's position detector for detecting a position of the photographed person, based on at least two of the plural two-dimensional images; a photographed person's direction detector for detecting a face direction of the photographed person; an image capturing apparatus selector for selecting at least two image capturing apparatuses which photograph a visual field of the photographed person, from the plural image capturing apparatuses, based on the position of the photographed person detected by said photographed person's position detector and the face direction of the photographed person detected by said photographed person's direction detector; a three-dimensional information generating section for generating three-dimensional information of space that is photographed, based on at least two of the two-dimensional images, each captured by a different image capturing apparatus that is selected by said image capturing apparatus selector; and an image generating section for generating the visual field image seen from the position of the photographed person along the face direction, based on the three-dimensional information, the position of the photographed person, and the face direction of the photographed person.