INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR VIRTUAL VIEWPOINT IMAGES, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR THE SAME

An information processing apparatus includes one or more memories storing instructions and one or more processors executing the instructions to: obtain a user operation; set, based on the obtained user operation, positions and orientations of a plurality of virtual cameras in a virtual viewpoint image generated from a plurality of images captured by a plurality of image capturing apparatuses; generate a camera path from the positions and the orientations of the plurality of virtual cameras; and differentiate a procedure for generating the camera path between generating the camera path using the set positions and orientations of the plurality of virtual cameras and generating the camera path using the set positions and orientations of the virtual cameras and a preset position and orientation of a virtual camera.