Patent ID: 8686993

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: circuitry configured to: set disparity between left-eye and right-eye images for a 3D image based on a manipulation from a manipulation unit that allocates a value to a depth direction of a 2D image; and create data on the left-eye and right-eye images in which a corresponding object is arranged in positions separated by the disparity set by the disparity setting unit by obtaining image data, classifying the image data into a plurality of processing units, setting one of the processing units as a processing target area, setting a reference point within the processing target area, extracting a first area from the processing target area having a predetermined width separated from the reference point by half of the disparity to the left, and extracting a second area from the processing target area having the predetermined width separated from the reference point by half of the disparity to the right, wherein a variable range of the disparity corresponds to an operable range of the manipulation unit, and the disparity is set having a degree corresponding to an operable position within the operable range of the manipulation unit.