Patent ID: 8416284

Claim:
A stereoscopic image capturing apparatus comprising: a first image acquisition unit including a first image formation lens unit which forms an image of an object, and a first image sensor having a plurality of capturing pixels on a surface thereof to receive the image formed by the first image acquisition unit and convert the image to an electric signal; a second image acquisition unit including a second image formation lens unit which forms an image of the object, a first lens array unit having a plurality of lenses arranged in an array form to receive the image formed by the second image formation lens, and a second image sensor having a plurality of capturing pixels on a surface thereof to receive the formed image through the first lens array unit and convert the image to an electric signal, the second image acquisition unit being disposed at a distance in a horizontal direction from the first image acquisition unit when viewed from the object; and a parallax vector generation processing unit which performs parallax vector generation processing by extracting a parallax vector from the image acquired by the second image acquisition unit, determining an associated point of the image acquired by the first image acquisition unit and the parallax vector, and interpolating a resolution of the parallax vector using the associated point and the image acquired by the first image acquisition unit.