US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 11 for "Generation apparatus, generation method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,208, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Generation apparatus, generation method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Shohei Iwamoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Rumie Oishi (Saitama, Japan) and Haruhisa Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generation apparatus generates a virtual viewpoint image based on a foreground model, a virtual object model, and a virtual viewpoint. The virtual object has a shape with an alternate repetition of one of a plurality of first planes and one of a plurality of second planes. A normal line of each first plane and a normal line of each s...