| 20100045678 | IMAGE CAPTURE AND PLAYBACK - A video signal is generated having a moving image as a series of playback frames and representing movement of a viewer through a computer-generated virtual scene which is generated using stored images by taking the stored images to have different viewpoints within the virtual scene. The video signal is generated by selecting a first stored image based on the selection of a first viewpoint, generating a first playback frame using the first stored image, selecting a next viewpoint from a set of potential next viewpoints distributed relative to the first viewpoint across the virtual scene, selecting a second stored image on the basis of the selected next viewpoint, and generating a subsequent playback frame using the second stored image. The image data is captured by capturing a set of images based on the selection of a set of points of capture, wherein at least some of the points of capture are distributed with a substantially constant or substantially smoothly varying average density across a first two-dimensional area. | 02-25-2010 |
