Patent ID: 8482600
Filing Date: 2013-07-09
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A one source multi use (OSMU) type stereoscopic camera, comprising: left and right cameras aligned with parallel optical axes; a separation adjustment unit configured to adjust a separation between the left and right cameras; a critical parallax computing unit configured to adjust the focus of a stereoscopic camera to an object and determine a far point of an image, the focus of which has been adjusted to the object so that a maximum critical parallax is computed based on a far point limit parallax of a medium-size stereoscopic display on condition that the separation between the optical axes is set to an arbitrary value; a camera separation computing unit configured to compute the separation between the parallel optical axes based on the computed critical parallax and drive the separation adjustment unit in response to the computed separation; and an image storage unit configured to store left and right images photographed by left and right cameras readjusted by the camera separation computing unit, wherein the critical parallax is represented by the following equation: wherein,