Patent ID: 8917929

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores bias amount information representing a bias amount, which corresponds to a parallax, along a first direction of an image corresponding to a horizontal direction between a first image captured by a first imaging apparatus and a second image captured by a second imaging apparatus which is located at a position different from that of the first imaging apparatus in the horizontal direction, with respect to each position in a second direction of the image corresponding to a vertical direction; an acquisition unit that acquires the first image captured by the first imaging apparatus and the second image captured by the second imaging apparatus; a processing unit that performs a parallax correction with respect to each pixel row along the first direction of the image, the parallax correction moving a position of the image in the first direction of a pixel row along the first direction of the image in accordance with the bias amount represented by the bias amount information corresponding to a position of the pixel row in the second direction of the image; and a generation unit that generates differential information representing a difference between the first image and the second image that have been subjected to the parallax correction by the processing unit, wherein the processing unit excludes a pixel row, a position of which on the image along the first direction is in a range corresponding to an upper side in the vertical direction as compared with a position corresponding to a predetermined horizontal line, from an object to be subjected to the parallax correction.