INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Author: ARAI TOMOAKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 11.11.2022
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

To control, for a multi-view display for displaying a virtual viewpoint image including different subjects in each window, positions of virtual viewpoints and line-of-sight directions from the virtual viewpoints so that the virtual viewpoint image can be easily understood in relation to other subjects.SOLUTION: An information processing apparatus is configured to: acquire position information of a subject captured by a plurality of imaging apparatus; determining a position of a first virtual viewpoint and a line-of-sight direction from the first virtual viewpoint for a virtual viewpoint image generated based on a plurality of captured images acquired by the plurality of imaging apparatuses; and determining a position of a second virtual viewpoint different from the first virtual viewpoint and a line-of-sight direction from the second virtual viewpoint based on position information of a first subject associated with the first virtual viewpoint and position information of a second subject associated with the second virtual viewpoint.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4 【課題】異なる被写体を含む仮想視点画像を各ウィンドウに表示するマルチ表示において、他の被写体との関係性を把握しやすい仮想視点画像が表示されるように仮想視点の位置と仮想視点からの視線方向を制御する。【解決手段】情報処理装置は、複数の撮影装置により撮影される被写体の位置情報を取得し、複数の撮影装置により取得される複数の撮影画像に基づいて生成される仮想視点画像に係る第１の仮想視点の位置及び第１の仮想視点からの視線方向を決定し、第１の仮想視点とは異なる第２の仮想視点の位置及び第２の仮想視点からの視線方向を、第１の仮想視点に関連付けられた第１の被写体の位置情報と第２の仮想視点に関連付けられた第２の被写体の位置情報とに基づいて決定する。【選択図】 図４