Patent ID: 7634130

Claim:
A moving image generating apparatus for generating three-dimensional moving image to display a subject as a three-dimensional object, comprising: a plurality of two-dimensional moving image generators, wherein each of said two-dimensional moving image generators is provided to a different position from each other, of which relative positions with respect to each of said two-dimensional moving image generators is predetermined respectively, and each of said two-dimensional moving image generators captures the subject at different timing intermittently and generates a two-dimensional captured moving image respectively, and a three-dimensional moving image generator operable to generate the three-dimensional moving image of which frame rate is higher than a frame rate of the two-dimensional captured moving image, based on both the relative positions of said plurality of two-dimensional moving image generators and the two-dimensional captured moving images generated by said two-dimensional moving image generators; and wherein said two-dimensional captured moving image includes a plurality of captured frames which is obtained intermittently and sequentially, while one of said two-dimensional moving image generators captures two consecutive captured frames, another of said two-dimensional moving image generators capture one captured frame, and said three-dimensional moving image generator includes: an interpolated frame generator operable to generate an interpolated frame to be inserted between the two consecutive captured frames, by interpolating between the two captured frames obtained by said two-dimensional moving image generator; a three-dimensional object generator operable to generate a three-dimensional object of the subject, based on both the interpolated frame inserted between the two captured frames which are obtained by said two-dimensional moving image generator and the one captured frame obtained by said other two-dimensional moving image generators; and a moving image processing unit operable to generate the three-dimensional moving image based on the three-dimensional object received from said three-dimensional object generator sequentially.