Patent ID: 8477995

Claim:
An image processing device comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive, from a camera, a captured image corresponding to an image of a scene captured by the camera, the scene containing at least one object; a determining unit configured to determine a distance between the object within the scene and a reference position defined with respect to the camera; and a generating unit configured to detect a position of the object within the captured image, and to generate a modified image from the captured image based on image features within the captured image which correspond to the object in the scene, in which: the generating unit is operable to generate the modified image by displacing the position of the captured object within the modified image with respect to the determined position of the object within the captured image by an object offset amount which is dependent on the distance between the reference position and the object in the scene so that, when the modified image and the captured image are viewed together as a pair of images on a display, the captured object appears to be positioned at a predetermined distance from the display, the reference position lies on a reference line, the reference line being orthogonal to an optical axis of the camera and passing through a position of the camera, and the reference position is located on the reference line at a point where an object location line and the reference line intersect, the object location line being orthogonal to the reference line and passing through the object.