Patent Document ID: 20130135298
Application ID: 13688316
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An apparatus for generating a new viewpoint image, which generates, from an input image, a new viewpoint image that is an image of the input image viewed from a new viewpoint, the input image including a foreground image region that is an image region of an object and a background image region other than the foreground image region, the apparatus comprising: a generation unit configured to shift the foreground image region in the input image, based on a depth map corresponding to the input image to generate a new viewpoint image including a missing pixel region; a selection unit configured to select background pixels located a predetermined number of pixels away from edge pixels, from among background pixels included in the background image region, as representative background pixels, the edge pixels indicating a boundary between the foreground image region and the background image region in the input image; a texture direction map calculation unit configured to calculate a texture direction of each of the selected representative background pixels, the texture direction being an edge direction of texture in the background image region for each of the representative background pixels, and to calculate a texture direction map indicating texture directions, each corresponding to one of missing pixels, based on locations of the representative background pixels and locations of the missing pixels included in the missing pixel region; and a hole-filling processing unit configured to fill the missing pixel region with the background pixels in accordance with the texture direction map.