Patent ID: 8791946
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein an image processing program which, when executed by a computer of an image processing apparatus for generating a stereoscopically visible image, causes the computer to perform operations comprising: acquiring an original image; storing depth information indicative of a subregion-by-subregion depth of the original image in association with corresponding subregions of the original image; and generating a left-eye image and a right-eye image by performing, on a subregion of the original image, a process of copying image data of the subregion of the original image to more than two subregions of a destination image in the left-right direction within a range in accordance with the depth information of the subregion of the original image, the range starting from a subregion of the destination image corresponding to the subregion of the original image, wherein the process of copying includes, when generating a particular one of the left-eye and right-eye image, copying image data of the subregion of the original image to a specified subregion of the destination image, and to a subregion to the left or to the right of a currently specified subregion in the destination image as determined based on the depth information of the subregion of the original image.