Patent ID: 9215452
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: G02B,H04N

Abstract:
1. A stereoscopic video display apparatus which displays a set of parallax images captured at multiple viewpoints and having a parallax from a reference parallax image and thereby enables a plurality of viewers to simultaneously watch a stereoscopic video generated from the set of parallax images without wearing any special glasses, said stereoscopic video display apparatus comprising: a two-dimensional display unit configured to select, for each of the parallax images, at least one pixel sequence from pixel sequences of the parallax image, and display the parallax image using the at least one pixel sequence; a dividing unit configured to divide light from the pixel sequences for the respective parallax images such that the respective parallax images are displayed at predetermined display positions; a position detecting unit configured to detect a position of each of the viewers watching the stereoscopic video; and a parallax image arrangement control unit configured to (i) specify, for each of the viewers at the detected positions, a display position from among the predetermined display positions other than a display position for a right eye of the viewer, and (ii) control display of the respective parallax images so that said two-dimensional display unit displays a starting parallax image having a lowest parallax image number among the parallax images, at the specified display position, wherein the parallax images produce pseudo stereoscopy when a parallax image number of a parallax image which enters the right eye of at least one of the viewers is smaller than a parallax image number of a parallax image which enters a left eye of the viewer.