초록

A method for generating information regarding a 3D object from at least one 2D projection thereof, the method comprising providing at least one 2D projection of a 3D object, generating an array of numbers described by: EQU .alpha..sub.ijk =v.sub.i 'b.sub.jk -v.sub.j "a.sub.ik (i,j,k=1,2,3),

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[ I claim:] [1.] An image processing system for generating an image of a scene from three views of the scene, the image processing system comprising:A. a planar view processor for identifying from the three planar views a set P.sub.s of at least one point P in the scene which has a respective projec

[ I claim:] [1.] An image processing system for generating an image of a scene from three views of the scene, the image processing system comprising:A. a planar view processor for identifying from the three planar views a set P.sub.s of at least one point P in the scene which has a respective projection in all three views;B. a trilinear tensor generator for generating from the set P.sub.s a trilinear tensor T having components .alpha..sub.ijk conforming to EQU .alpha..sub.ijk =v'.sub.i b.sub.jk -v.sub.j".sub.j a.sub.ik (i, j, k=1, 2, 3),where v.sub.i ' and v.sub.j " are components of vectors v' and v", and a.sub.jk and b.sub.jk are components of matrices A and B defined such that, for each point P .OR right. P.sub.s in the set, projection points p, p' and p" onto the respective first, second and third views have coordinates in the respective view given byp=[I,0]P (where "I" represents an identity matrix),p'.congruent.[A,v']P (where ".congruent." represents equality up to a scale factor), andp".congruent.[B,v"]P, B, v' and v" being the same for projection points p, p' and p" for point P .OR right. P.sub.s ; andC. an image generator for utilizing the trilinear tensor T to generate the image of said scene.