Patent ID: 9097964
Filing Date: 2015-08-04
Classification: G03B,G09F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A stereoscopic image generating device, comprising: an image input unit configured to input a multi-viewpoint image with two or more viewpoints; an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on distribution of parallax of the inputted multi-viewpoint image; a number-of-viewpoint determination unit configured to determine, based on the information on the distribution of parallax acquired by the information acquisition unit, a number of viewpoints of a stereoscopic image; a comparison unit configured to compare a number of viewpoints of the multi-viewpoint image inputted via the image input unit and the number of viewpoints determined by the number-of-viewpoint determination unit; a viewpoint image generation unit configured to generate, if the number of viewpoints of the multi-viewpoint image inputted via the image input unit is smaller than the number of viewpoints of the determined stereoscopic image, a shortfall viewpoint image based on the inputted multi-viewpoint image; and a stereoscopic image generating unit configured to generate a stereoscopic image including the multi-viewpoint image inputted via the image input unit and the viewpoint image generated by the viewpoint image generation unit.