Patent ID: 8704881

Claim:
A three-dimensional image display device comprising: an image generating section, which uses first and second images that have been captured by two image capturing sections that are arranged at a first optical axis interval in an x-direction to generate two images to be viewed from two viewing points that are spaced from each other by a wider interval in the x-direction than the first optical axis interval; and a display section for presenting the two images that have been generated by the image generating section to a user's left and right eyes, respectively, wherein the image generating section includes: a coordinate transformation section for transforming, on a unit element basis, the coordinates of at least one of the first and second images captured in the x-direction so that the amount of parallax of the two images generated by the image generating section to generate the two images to be viewed from the two viewing points that are spaced from each other by a wider interval than the first optical axis interval becomes equal to the amount of parallax between the two viewing points, wherein the coordinate transformation in at least the x direction is carried out using the equation: [ X Y ] = [ x y ] + [ Δ ′ - Δ 0 ] where (x, y) correspond to the coordinates yet to be transformed, (X, Y) correspond to the transformed coordinates, Δ corresponds to the amount of parallax of the two images generated by the image generating section, and Δ′ corresponds to the amount of parallax between the two viewing points, wherein the transforming of the coordinates in the x-direction results in an image information missing portion corresponding to information not included in any of the first and second images because the first and second images were generated from viewing points that were located outside of the two viewing points during capturing; and an image interpolation section for generating, by interpolation, image information for the image information missing portion.