US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 1 for "Control apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,348, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Shohei Yamauchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shohei Iwamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is obtained an operation signal designating a position and an orientation in a virtual space of a virtual viewpoint corresponding to a virtual viewpoint image to be generated based on a plurality of captured images obtained by performing image capturing with a plurality of image capturing devices. A second virtual viewpoint facing a first virtual viewpoint identified by the obtained operation signal...