Patent ID: 8989482
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an attention region estimation unit that estimates an attention region which is estimated as a user paying attention thereto on a stereoscopic image; a parallax detection unit that detects a parallax of the stereoscopic image and generates a parallax map indicating a parallax of each region of the stereoscopic image; a maximum and minimum parallax detection unit that detects a maximum value and a minimum value of parallaxes indicated by the parallax map and detects a parallax of the attention region based on the parallax map and the attention region; a setting unit that sets conversion characteristics for correcting a parallax of the stereoscopic image based on the attention region and the parallax map; a parallax conversion unit that corrects the parallax map based on the conversion characteristics; and an image synthesis unit that corrects a parallax of the stereoscopic image based on the corrected parallax map, wherein the setting unit sets the conversion characteristics based also on the maximum value, the minimum value, and the parallax of the attention region, and wherein the attention region estimation unit, the parallax detection unit, the setting unit, the parallax conversion unit, the image synthesis unit, and the maximum and minimum parallax detection unit are each implemented via at least one processor.