Patent ID: 8600151

Claim:
A method of producing a digital stereoscopic image, comprising using a processor to: a) provide a plurality of digital image files which include digital images and the time of capture of each image; b) use the times of capture to identify candidate pairs of images; c) analyze the image content of the candidate pairs of images by determining differences between the images of a candidate pair of images to identify at least one image pair that can be used to produce a digital stereoscopic image, wherein determining the differences comprises: i) computing the value of the difference between the luminance channels of candidate images; ii) computing the value of the difference of the candidate images and comparing that value against a time threshold value; iii) computing an image content difference value based, at least in part, on the value difference between the luminance channels of the candidate images and the value of the time difference of the candidate images; and iv) using the computed image content difference value to identify a pair of images that can be used to produce a digital stereoscopic image; and d) use the identified image pair to produce the digital stereoscopic image.