Patent ID: 6747610
Filing Date: 2004-06-08
Classification: G09G,H04N

Abstract:
A stereoscopic display apparatus for giving a stereoscopic display utilizing multi view point image data constituted by a plurality of image data, comprising:view point setting means for setting a plurality of view points, and image data forming and outputting means for forming and outputting a plurality of image data viewed from respective ones of said plurality of view points set by said view point setting means, utilizing said multi view point image data, wherein said image data forming and outputting means includes means for outputting, when a plurality of photographing means virtually set at respective ones of said plurality of view points for photographing said plurality of image data satisfy a prescribed relation, image data viewed from said plurality of view points, and means for converting, when said plurality of photographing means do not satisfy said prescribed relation, the image data viewed from said plurality of view points to image data which would be photographed by said plurality of photographing means satisfying said prescribed relation, and outputting the converted image data, and wherein said prescribed relation is a relation where bottom sides of said plurality of photographing means all exist on one same plane.