Patent ID: 6366691
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A stereoscopic image processing apparatus comprising:a first image producing unit which produces a first photographed image of an object scene; a second image producing unit which produces a second photographed image of said object scene; a stereo matching unit which identifies within the second photographed image a correlated destination of each pixel block in first photographed image by searching along the same horizontal line as said pixel block of the first photographed image and calculates a parallax of said pixel block based on a deviation between a position of said pixel block of the first photographed image and a position of said correlated destination; and a filter which, when plural pixel blocks located on the same horizontal line in said first photographed image have the same correlated destination in said second photographed image, judges the smallest parallax in the parallaxes of said plural pixel blocks as a valid parallax.