Patent ID: 8254668
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A three-dimensional image displaying apparatus for displaying a three-dimensional image perceived by one or more users based on two-dimensional viewpoint images corresponding respectively to right and left eyes of the one or more users, the apparatus comprising: a storage unit having pre-stored front and back boundary positions of a three-dimensional object perceived by the user, the front boundary position being a limit up to where the three-dimensional object appears to be maximally close to the user and the back boundary position being a limit up to where the three-dimensional object appears to be maximally distant from the user; a receiving unit configured to receive a user instruction selecting front and back boundary positions from the pre-stored front and back boundary positions; and a control unit configured to: receive a single two-dimensional image having information for generating the two-dimensional viewpoint images from the received single two-dimensional image; generate the two-dimensional viewpoint images from the received single two-dimensional image based on the received information; and adjust parallax between or among the two-dimensional viewpoint images based on a parallax amount corresponding to the user instruction before the three-dimensional image is displayed so that the three-dimensional object to be perceived by the user appears between the front and back boundary positions selected by the user instruction.