Patent ID: 8564641

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for adjusting stereo images, the method comprising: receiving a video sequence associated with a recorded setting of a stereoscopic camera, the video sequence comprising pairs of left and right images; processing the pairs of left and right images to reduce an influence of a discrepancy between the recorded setting and an actual configuration of the stereoscopic camera, wherein the actual configuration is determined using a virtual three-dimensional (3D) space and a new virtual camera rig, wherein the processing of the pairs of left and right images comprises determining the new virtual camera rig for the virtual 3D space based on the pairs of left and right images, and generating modified pairs of left and right images using the new virtual camera rig; including the left and right images in the virtual three-dimensional (3D) space; generating a representative virtual camera rig in the virtual 3D space corresponding to the recorded setting; wherein determining the new virtual camera rig comprises: assigning respective markers to the left and right images, each marker corresponding to one of multiple features in a physical scene depicted by the left and right images, each of the markers assigned based on at least one of: (i) user input indicating marker placement and (ii) matching analysis between separate images in the video sequence; and from each of the markers in the left and right images, generating a virtual light ray that passes through a corresponding nodal point in the representative virtual camera rig; wherein the new virtual camera rig is determined using the virtual light rays.