Patent ID: 7162074

Claim:
An adjusting apparatus for adjusting a brightness balance between a pair of images taken by a stereoscopic camera, comprising: gain adjusting means for adjusting a brightness gain of said pair of images; offset level adjusting means for adjusting a brightness offset amount of at least one of said pair of images; first evaluation window establishing means for establishing a first evaluation window in one of said images; second evaluation window establishing means for establishing a second evaluation window having a brightness correlation with said first evaluation window in the other image; paired evaluation samples calculating means for calculating a plurality of paired evaluation samples of an evaluation value representing a magnitude of an overall brightness of said first evaluation window and an evaluation value representing a magnitude of an overall brightness of said second evaluation window; and brightness balance adjusting means for adjusting a brightness balance between said images by correcting said brightness gain and said brightness offset amount so as to reduce a difference between said evaluation values, wherein said brightness balance adjusting means includes means for obtaining a regression line based on a distribution of said paired evaluation samples and for correcting said brightness gain and said brightness offset amount such that said regression line is a proportional line having a gradient=1 and passing through an origin.