Patent ID: 7120313

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for producing a virtual space for walk-through, said apparatus comprising: holding means for holding plural pieces of frame data constituting each of plural moving images captured using each of a plurality of capturing devices mounted on a moving object, associated with position data obtained based on GPS, that indicate a position at which each piece of frame data is captured; setting means for setting a sampling interval of frame data; extraction means for reading position data associated with successive frame data and extracting position data based on the sampling interval; deletion means for deleting frame data of the plurality of capturing devices that has been held in said holding means, and corresponds to the extracted position data except for one of said extracted position data; generation means for generating panoramic images from the frame data captured by the plurality of capturing devices; and associating means for associating each of the panoramic images with a position on a map based on the position data of frames constituting that panoramic image, wherein said extracted position data correspond to positions separated by a distance shorter than a distance corresponding to the set sampling interval.