Patent ID: 7620236

Claim:
An image processing method of reconstructing a new image at a POV (point of view) position and direction where no actual photographing is performed, from among plural images respectively photographed at different POV positions, comprising: a setting step of setting POV position and direction information of the new image; a transmission step of transmitting the POV position and direction information set in said setting step to plural photographing devices; a reception step of receiving effective pixel information of images according to the POV position and direction information respectively from the plural photographing devices; and a reconstruction step of reconstructing the new image based on the effective pixel information received in said reception step, wherein each of the plural photographing devices includes an extracting step of extracting an effective pixel from a photographed image, on the basis of the set POV position and direction information and POV position and direction information of the photographed image, and each effective pixel is a pixel corresponding to a light beam included in an image constitution surface according to the set POV position and direction information, wherein the light beam lies in a straight line connecting the set POV position according to the set POV position and direction information and the photographed image POV position according to the POV position and direction information of the photographed image.