Patent ID: 7457456

Claim:
An image generation method for generating a viewpoint-modified image based on camera information sensed by a plurality of image sensing units, each sensing an image around an image sensing unit-disposed object, comprising: setting a three-dimensional space in which the image sensing unit-disposed object is disposed; specifying the three-dimensional space by setting a virtual viewpoint being different from a respective viewpoint of each of the plurality of image sensing units; generating a viewpoint-modified image by coordinate-transforming pixels of image data, based on the camera information sensed from the viewpoints of the plurality of image sensing units, to the three-dimensional space which is viewed from the virtual viewpoint, and by re-arranging the pixels on an image plane viewed from the virtual viewpoint; displaying an image sensing unit-disposed object model on the viewpoint-modified image; detecting a change of a movable member of the image sensing unit-disposed object transforming and displaying a relevant part of the image sensing unit-disposed object model in the viewpoint-modified image reflecting the detected change in the movable member.