A method for generating and displaying a free view 3D image

Recently, it is necessary to show the sight of a remote place as a picture. The shown picture is expected for large field of view and stereoscopic vision to be possible. As the conventional technique, there were method which use two or more cameras to take pictures, and anther method which use several pictures to generate the middle viewpoint. However the former, it tends to become an expensive and complicated system, and the latter, there is a problem that information is missing with occlusion. We proposed a system which used one camera and a spin mirror to generate the free viewpoint 3D image. However, the range to generate is restricted in case a free viewpoint image is generated by the conventional method. In this paper, the new algorithm which generates the 3D image of a free viewpoint is proposed. The wide range free viewpoint 3D image was generated using the proposing method, and the verification experiment was done. The availability of the proposing method was confirmed from the result.