Patent ID: 9064338
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A stereoscopic image generation method comprising: a region setting step of setting a plurality of regions in an original image; a characteristic information acquisition step of acquiring characteristic information for each of pixels constituting the original image; a depth information generation step of generating depth information for each of the pixels on the basis of the characteristic information by determining the depth information independently for each of the plurality of the regions and generating an individual depth map for each of the plurality of regions; and a stereoscopic image generation step of generating a stereoscopic image in which positions of the pixels are changed based on the determined depth information and the individual depth map for each of the plurality wherein the region setting step includes a rear-side color value estimation step of estimating, in an overlapping area in which a front one of the regions and a rear one of the regions overlap each other, a color value of a pixel in the rear one of the regions and generating, for each of the plurality of regions, a corrected individual original image in which the missing color value in the overlapping area is corrected; and in depth information generation step, the depth information is generated for each of the pixels in each of the corrected individual original images.