Patent ID: 8619076

Claim:
A stereoscopic image display control apparatus for causing a display device to display a stereoscopic image, the stereoscopic image display control apparatus comprising: an output unit configured to output the stereoscopic image to the display device, based on a state of the stereoscopic image; an input accepting unit configured to accept, from a user, input of a change instruction to change the state of the stereoscopic image displayed by the display device; a change amount prediction unit configured to predict amounts of change in projection and recession of the stereoscopic image in unit time to be caused when the state of the stereoscopic image is changed in accordance with the change instruction accepted by the input accepting unit; and a display control unit configured to change the state of the stereoscopic image to be outputted from the output unit, in accordance with the change instruction accepted by the input accepting unit, wherein when one of the amounts of change in projection and recession in unit time predicted by the change amount prediction unit exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the display control unit is configured to decrease a change speed of the state of the stereoscopic image to cause the one of the amounts of change, in unit time, in projection and recession of the stereoscopic image to be outputted from the output unit to be smaller than or equal to the threshold value, the change amount prediction unit is configured to: predict, as the amount of change in projection in unit time, a difference between amounts of projection at points of the stereoscopic image which project most from a display surface of the display device at a start and an end of the unit time; and predict, as the amount of change in recession in unit time, a difference between amounts of recession at points of the stereoscopic image which recede most from the display surface of the display device at a start and an end of the unit time.