Patent ID: 8760468
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus, comprising: a first receiving unit which receives first image data and auxiliary information including URL information of a server of a network for use in receiving second image data from the server; a second receiving unit which is connected to the server of the network, and receives the second image data from the server when the auxiliary information is received by the first receiving unit; an image processing unit which generates one of a first image from the first image data and a final image on the basis of the first image data and the second image data; and a controller which controls the second receiving unit to receive the second image data from the server on the basis of the URL information included in the auxiliary information and controls the image processing unit to generate one of the first image and the final image, wherein the image processing unit generates the first image if the auxiliary information about the image is not received, and generates the final image if the auxiliary information is received, and wherein the first image data is a left-eye two-dimensional image data which has a first resolution, and the second image data is a right-eye two-dimensional image data which has a second resolution; and the final image is a three-dimensional image which has a third resolution which is higher than the first resolution and equivalent to the second resolution, equivalent to the first resolution and higher than the second resolution, or higher than the first resolution and higher than the second resolution.