Patent ID: 8767048

Claim:
An image processing method, comprising: extracting shot information included in metadata of a video data, the shot information classifies frames of the video data into shot units, each shot unit being a group of frames having a similar composition with resect to a previous frame; determining whether frames of a predetermined shot can be reproduced as a three-dimensional image format based on shot type information included in the shot information, the shot type information indicates whether the frames of the predetermined shot need to be output as a two-dimensional image format or the three-dimensional image format; extracting background depth information from the metadata if the frames of the predetermined shot unit can be reproduced as the three-dimensional image format, wherein the background depth information relates to a background of the frames of the predetermined shot unit; generating a depth map about the background of the frames based on the background depth information; if the frames of the predetermined shot unit comprise an object, extracting object depth information about the object from the metadata; and generating a depth map about the object based on the object depth information.