Overview of FTV (free-viewpoint television)

We have developed a new type of television named FTV (Free-viewpoint TV). FTV is an innovative visual media that enables us to view a 3D scene by freely changing our viewpoints. We constructed the world´s first real-time FTV system including the complete chain from capturing to display. We have also developed new type of ray capture and display technologies such as a 360-degree mirror-scan ray capturing system and a 360 degree ray-reproducing display. MPEG has been conducting the standardization activities of FTV. The first phase of FTV was multi-view video coding and the second phase is 3D video.