Patent ID: 8599243
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an imaging unit configured to generate an imaged image by imaging a subject; a depth information generating unit configured to generate depth information relating to said imaged image; an image processing unit configured to extract, from said imaged image, an image of an object region including a particular subject out of subjects included in said imaged image and a surrounding region of said subject, based on said depth information, and generate a difference image to display a stereoscopic image in which said subjects included in said imaged image are viewed stereoscopically based on said extracted image; and a recording control unit configured to generate a data stream in which data corresponding to said imaged image and data corresponding to said difference image are correlated, and record said data stream as a moving image file, wherein said imaging unit generates a first imaged image and a second imaged image, in which one of said first imaged image and said second imaged image is a stereoscopic main image and in which the stereoscopic image is formed from the stereoscopic main image and the difference image, and wherein said image processing unit (i) identifies a common region included in the first imaged image and the second imaged image which lies within a second subject region which extends from a second distance to a third distance from a position of the image processing apparatus at a time of imaging by use of said depth information, and (ii) generates the difference image from a portion or portions of the other of said first imaged image and said second imaged image which are not in the common region such that the difference image is generated from the portion or portions of the other of said first imaged image and said second imaged image which are only within a first subject region which extends from a first distance to the second distance from the position of the image processing apparatus at the time of imaging, in which the third distance is greater than the second distance and the second distance is greater than the first distance.