Patent ID: 8866881

Claim:
A stereoscopic image playback device configured to reproduce and display a stereoscopic image on a stereoscopic image display device, comprising: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a piece of data of a stereoscopic image; a display size acquisition unit configured to acquire a display size of the stereoscopic image display device; a parallax adjustment amount creation unit configured to create, based on the acquired display size, a parallax adjustment amount for adjusting a parallax of the stereoscopic image; a small screen display unit configured to cause the stereoscopic image display device to display the stereoscopic image having a parallax adjusted based on the parallax adjustment amount in a small screen with a size smaller than the display size of the stereoscopic image display device; a determination unit configured to determine, based on the stereoscopic image displayed in the small screen, whether a stereoscopic effect of the stereoscopic image is appropriate; and a display control unit configured to cause, when the determination unit determines that the stereoscopic effect is appropriate, the stereoscopic image display device to display the stereoscopic image having the parallax adjusted based on the parallax adjustment amount with the display size of the stereoscopic image display device.