Patent ID: 8044997

Claim:
A stereoscopic video processing apparatus, comprising: a video input unit, for receiving input of stereoscopic videos constituted by a plurality of frames, which are viewable stereoscopically; a scene detecting unit, for detecting positions within the stereoscopic videos at which scene changes occur; and a perceived depth adjusting unit, for administering a perceived depth adjusting process comprising the steps of: displaying a leading perceived depth adjusting frame corresponding to the leading frame of a scene to be processed or the last frame of a preceding scene and having a perceived depth corresponding to that of the last frame, following display of the last frame of a preceding scene; displaying a number of perceived depth adjusting frames, in which the perceived depth changes continuously from that of the leading perceived depth adjusting frame to that of the leading frame; and displaying the leading frame and the frames following thereafter, after the perceived depth adjusting frames are displayed, to generate processed stereoscopic videos.