Patent ID: 9749608
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. An apparatus to generate stereoscopic image data, the apparatus comprising: a camera unit including a first camera module and a second camera module spaced a distance apart, wherein the camera unit is configured to: obtain a first image and a second image for an object at different angles, and store the first image and the second image as separate files; and a controller configured to: control the camera unit to obtain the first image by the first camera module and the second image by the second camera module in response to detecting a stereoscopic image data generate request, set and provide a compression condition of the first image and the second image to a first encoder and a second encoder; change the second compression ratio for the second image from the first compression ratio for the first image to lower an image quality of the second image; compress, using the first encoder, the first image using a first compression ratio and, using the second encoder, the second image using a second compression ratio different from the first compression ratio, generate the stereoscopic image data comprising the first image and the second image, reproduce one image compressed by a compression ratio associated with a high image quality among the first image and the second image comprised in the stereoscopic image data in response to detecting a two-dimensional (2D) image data play request, and reproduce the first image and the second image comprised in the stereoscopic image data in response to detecting a three-dimensional (3D) image data play request.