Patent ID: 8159529
Filing Date: 2012-04-17
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image outputting apparatus for displaying images of a 3D image file composed of stereoscopic image data which represents a plurality of monocular images constituting a multi-ocular stereoscopic image and information which is added to the stereoscopic image data and which indicates that the data is stereoscopic data, the apparatus comprising: a display output mode switching unit which switches a display output mode of the apparatus, between a 3D display output mode in which the images of the 3D image file are displayed as a stereoscopic image and a 2D display output mode in which one of the images of the 3D image file is displayed as an ordinary planar image; a display output control unit which indicates on a screen that the 3D image file is a 3D image file, when one of the images of the 3D image file is displayed in the 2D display output mode; a printing execution mode switching unit which switches a printing mode, when receiving printing instruction, between a single-image printing mode in which one image file is printed and a continuous printing mode in which a plurality of image files are printed continuously; and a print output control unit which prints, in the single-image printing mode, images of the 3D image file in a selected print output mode, and which prints, in the continuous printing mode, images of the 3D image file in the 2D print output mode.