Patent ID: 8208008

Claim:
A stereoscopic image display apparatus, comprising: an image obtaining unit, for obtaining a plurality of images, which are obtained by photography of a subject from different positions by a photography unit; a distance measuring unit, for measuring a distance to the subject from the photography unit; a stereoscopic image generating unit, for generating a stereoscopic image for three dimensional display from the plurality of images; a display region generating unit, for generating display regions that display the images having amounts of parallax and sizes corresponding to the distance, when the display regions are displayed overlapped in the stereoscopic image; a display unit, for displaying the stereoscopic image, on which the display regions are overlapped; and a zoom unit for enlarging and reducing the stereoscopic image; the display region generating unit comprising a unit for changing the sizes of the display regions according to the zoom magnification rate when the stereoscopic image is enlarged and reduced.