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US 12,726,687 B2Granted
Apparatus, method, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroshi Nakaoka
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Abstract
An apparatus records, as a single file, visible light images of a plurality of points of view, invisible light images of a plurality of points of view, meta information about visible light images corresponding to the visible light images of the plurality of points of view, and meta information about invisible light images corresponding to the invisible light images of the plurality of points of view.
Claims9
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor and memory holding a program which makes the processor function as:
- a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of visible light images having different points of view from each other and a plurality of invisible light images corresponding to the plurality of visible light images and having different points of view from each other;
- a second acquisition unit configured to acquire depth information about a visible light image that corresponds to the plurality of visible light images and depth information about an invisible light image that corresponds to the plurality of invisible light images, wherein the depth information about the visible light image or the depth information about the invisible light image is generated by using a correction parameter and another one of the depth information, the depth information being one of image disparity amount, defocus amount and a subject distance;
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- a generation unit configured to generate a single file including the plurality of visible light images, the depth information about the visible light image, the plurality of invisible light images, and the depth information about the invisible light image.
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A method for controlling an apparatus, the method comprising:
- acquiring a plurality of visible light images having different points of view from each other and a plurality of invisible light images corresponding to the plurality of visible light images and having different points of view from each other;
- acquiring depth information about a visible light image that corresponds to the plurality of visible light images, and depth information about an invisible light image that corresponds to the plurality of invisible light images, wherein the depth information about the visible light image or the depth information about the invisible light image is generated by using a correction parameter and another one of the depth information, the depth information being one of image disparity amount, defocus amount and a subject distance;
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- generating a single file including the plurality of visible light images, the depth information about the visible light image, the plurality of invisible light images, and the depth information about the invisible light image.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to perform a method for controlling an apparatus, the method comprising:
- acquiring a plurality of visible light images having different points of view from each other and a plurality of invisible light images corresponding to the plurality of visible light images and having different points of view from each other;
- acquiring depth information about a visible light image that corresponds to the plurality of visible light images, and depth information about an invisible light image that corresponds to the plurality of invisible light images, wherein the depth information about the visible light image or the depth information about the invisible light image is generated by using a correction parameter and another one of the depth information, the depth information being one of image disparity amount, defocus amount and a subject distance;
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- generating a single file including the plurality of visible light images, the depth information about the visible light image, the plurality of invisible light images, and the depth information about the invisible light image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.