Immersive viewing using a planar array of cameras

A method for generating a virtual view from multi-view images comprising:

• attaining a first planar image representative of a scene based on a plurality of planar images of the scene;
• determining, based on a viewer position relative to a display region, a first crop position of the first planar image and a second crop position of the first planar image;
• cropping the first planar image to a cropped planar image to fill the display region based on the first and second crop positions, wherein the first and second crop positions define an asymmetric frustum of the first planar image corresponding to a virtual window corresponding to the display region, the first crop position is at a position away from a midpoint of the first planar image toward a first edge of the first planar image by a ratio of a product of a focal length corresponding to the first planar image and a lateral position of virtual viewer position from the first edge of the virtual window to a distance of the virtual viewer position from the virtual window, and the virtual viewer position corresponds to the viewer position;
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• providing the cropped planar image for presentation to the viewer.

At least one non-transitory machine readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions that, in response to being executed on a computing device, cause the computing device to generate a virtual view from multi-view images by:

• attaining a first planar image representative of a scene based on a plurality of planar images of the scene;
• determining, based on a viewer position relative to a display region, a first crop position of the first planar image and a second crop position of the first planar image;
• cropping the first planar image to a cropped planar image to fill the display region based on the first and second crop positions, wherein the first and second crop positions define an asymmetric frustum of the first planar image corresponding to a virtual window corresponding to the display region, the first crop position is at a position away from a midpoint of the first planar image toward a first edge of the first planar image by a ratio of a product of a focal length corresponding to the first planar image and a lateral position of virtual viewer position from the first edge of the virtual window to a distance of the virtual viewer position from the virtual window, and the virtual viewer position corresponds to the viewer position;
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• providing the cropped planar image for presentation to the viewer.