Patent ID: 8009898

Claim:
A stereo camera apparatus comprising: a camera unit comprising a plurality of cameras; a memory unit for storing a plurality of images obtained by respective cameras of the plurality of cameras and information regarding screen display regions of respective images of the plurality of images; a reference position search unit for determining a specific position among screen display regions of images obtained by a reference camera among the cameras as a first reference position, for selecting a number of pixel blocks from the first reference position, for searching for a position of a pixel block which has a highest consistency ratio with the pixel block according to the first reference position among a predetermined search region of an image obtained by a non-reference camera, and for determining a second reference position from the searched pixel block; an offset value determiner for calculating a distance compensation value; and a controller for moving the screen display region of the image obtained by the non-reference camera as much as the compensation value, so that the screen display regions of the images obtained by the reference camera and the non-reference camera have focuses on a same horizontal line, wherein the distance compensation value is calculated with regard to a direction perpendicular to the horizontal line.