US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 13 for "Information processing apparatus and method, and storage medium for generating arbitrary viewpoint images" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,392, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and method, and storage medium for generating arbitrary viewpoint images" was invented by Eishi Takeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus comprises: an input unit that inputs first image data used to display an image in a first mode and second image data used to display an image in a second mode; a switching unit that switches between the first and second modes; a generation unit that generates an image viewed from an arbitrary viewpoint based on the second image data; a designation unit that designates...