Abstract: A virtual camera system comprises a plurality of physical cameras and a hardware setup miming software to create virtual viewpoints for the virtual camera system. The position of the physical cameras is constrained, where the main constraint is the overlap between the physical cameras. The present invention provides a method for creating a virtual viewpoint of a plurality of images captured by the plurality of cameras, the images comprising current frames and previous frames.

Abstract: A virtual camera system comprises a plurality of physical cameras and a hardware setup miming software to create virtual viewpoints for the virtual camera system. The position of the physical cameras is constrained, where the main constraint is the overlap between the physical cameras. The present invention provides a method for creating a virtual viewpoint of a plurality of images captured by the plurality of cameras, the images comprising current frames and previous frames.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for reducing the storage size required for temporary data by storage order optimization. Advantageously, the execution order optimization and the storage order optimization may be treated independently. The storage size optimization is preferably performed by determining an optimum intra-array and/or inter-array storage order based on a geometrical model. The geometrical model provides a representation of the address space occupied by an array as a function of time and allows the calculation of the window size of the occupied address/time domain of the array. Where calculations would be time-consuming, these may be shortened by making simplifying assumptions, e.g. calculation of upper and lower bounds of the window size of the occupied address/time domain of an array rather than an exact calculation. Further, heuristical simplifications are described to reduce run-times for the optimization process.