Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image generation apparatus and image generation method
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Application No.: US14354692Application Date: 2011-11-07
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Publication No.: US09729788B2Publication Date: 2017-08-08
- Inventor: Kyoko Furumura , Shinichi Hirata , Takeshi Yamagishi
- Applicant: Kyoko Furumura , Shinichi Hirata , Takeshi Yamagishi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation,Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation,Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo JP Tokyo
- Agent Matthew B. Dernier, Esq.
- International Application: PCT/JP2011/006216 WO 20111107
- International Announcement: WO2013/069050 WO 20130516
- Main IPC: H04N7/00
- IPC: H04N7/00 ; H04N5/232 ; G03B37/02 ; G06T3/40 ; H04N13/00 ; H04N13/02 ; G06T7/33 ; G06T7/73

Abstract:
A characteristic point extraction unit extracts a characteristic point in an overlapping region of a plurality of component images picked up using a camera built in portable equipment and having pan angles or elevation angles different from each other. A self-position estimation unit estimates three-dimensional coordinate values of the characteristic point and three-dimensional coordinate values of a camera position, which are associated with each other, at the same time in two component images in which the camera positions are displaced from each other. A panoramic image generation unit adjusts, based on the estimated three-dimensional coordinate values of the camera position, the three-dimensional coordinate values of the characteristic point of the component image to correct the component image and combine a plurality of component images having pan angles or elevation angles different from each other to generate a synthesis image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140267594A1 IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD Public/Granted day:2014-09-18
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