In conventional three-dimensional image generation systems, in order to suppress image quality degradation as much as possible, complicated interpolation calculations are carried out in real-time from multiple-viewpoint original images, it is necessary to generate three-dimensional images, resource consumption is high and extremely specialised and expensive computers, etcetera, are required. Also, the inability to output or send multiple-viewpoint original images in a standard format represents a great problem for the spread of three-dimensional image display technology. In this completely new three-dimensional image generation system, by generating in advance an intermediate image which has the same resolution as a three-dimensional image and in which the pixels for each viewpoint have been compiled, a three-dimensional image can be generated by converting pixel arrangement and without using high-speed specialised computers or the like, and by using an intermediate image in which multiple-viewpoint images are arranged in a tile-shape, an intermediate image which is outputted or sent in a standard format by a standard image output device or image delivery server is used to generate a three-dimensional image by means of a simple and low-cost three-dimensional image generation device
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