US Patent Issued to CANON on April 7 for "Control apparatus, control method, and storage medium for determining a camera path indicating a movement path of a virtual viewpoint in a three-dimensional space" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,281, issued on April 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, control method, and storage medium for determining a camera path indicating a movement path of a virtual viewpoint in a three-dimensional space" was invented by Tomoaki Arai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a technique capable of obtaining a desired camera path by a simple operation even in a case where a large structure whose shape is complicated exists in a three-dimensional section. A camera path indicating a movement path of a virtual viewpoint in a specific area in a three-dimensional space is determined based on shape data of a struc...