US Patent Issued to CANON on June 16 for "Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for virtual viewpoint image rendering through machine learning" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,444, issued on June 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for virtual viewpoint image rendering through machine learning" was invented by Naoto Matsubara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To make it possible to obtain a highly accurate trained model with a small amount of learning time. A plurality of captured images corresponding to each of a plurality of imaging devices and virtual viewpoint information predefining a virtual viewpoint for generating a virtual viewpoint image are obtained and based on the virtual viewpoint information, an imagin...