Patent ID: 8487983
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: G02B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A viewing area adjustment device, comprising: an image pickup unit capable of shooting a forward direction of a stereoscopic video display device capable of displaying a stereoscopic video; a viewer information detector configured to detect the number of viewers and positions of the viewers by a video shot by the image pickup unit; a viewing area adjustment policy determining unit configured to select any one of a plurality of viewing area adjustment policies each showing a policy for adjusting a viewing area where the stereoscopic video is viewable, based on the number of viewers detected by the viewer information detector; a viewing area information computing unit configured to compute an adjustment amount for the viewing area, based on the viewing area adjustment policy determining unit and on the position of each viewer detected by the viewer information detector; a viewing area adjusting unit configured to adjust the viewing area, based on the adjustment amount for the viewing area computed by the viewing area information computing unit; a video type detector configured to detect a video type of input video data, wherein