US Patent Issued to Canon on March 17 for "Arrangement determination apparatus, system, arrangement determination method, and recording medium" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,207, issued on March 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Arrangement determination apparatus, system, arrangement determination method, and recording medium" was invented by Michio Aizawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasushi Shikata (Port Washington, N.Y.), Shinichiro Uno (Tokyo) and Atsushi Date (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement determination apparatus for determining an arrangement of a plurality of cameras that is used for generation of a virtual viewpoint image acquires information indicating an imaging target region, and determines an arrangement of the plurality of cameras based on the information in such a manne...