Patent ID: 8502863

Claim:
A stereoscopic imaging apparatus, comprising: a plurality of imaging units that include imaging optical systems and imaging elements for photoelectrically converting subject images formed through the imaging optical systems and that image a plurality of images with a parallax; a storage unit that stores amounts of optical axis deviation of the imaging optical systems with respect to a plurality of focus positions and zoom positions detected in advance; a position detection unit that detects current focus positions and zoom positions of the plurality of imaging optical systems; an optical axis deviation acquisition unit that acquires amounts of optical axis deviation corresponding to the current focus positions and zoom positions of the imaging optical systems detected by the position detection unit based on the amounts of optical axis deviation of the imaging optical systems; an imaging control unit that acquires a plurality of images for stereoscopic image from the plurality of imaging units; an image cut-out unit that performs a cut-out process of images for stereoscopic display from the plurality of images acquired by the imaging control unit, based on the amounts of optical axis deviation acquired corresponding to the current focus position and the zoom position by the optical axis deviation acquisition unit; and a distortion correction unit that corrects distortion of the plurality of images acquired by the imaging control unit based on a distortion correction formula corresponding to the zoom positions detected by the position detection unit out of distortion correction formulas having different correction accuracies for each of the zoom positions, wherein the optical axis deviation acquisition unit acquires the amount of optical axis deviation after the distortion correction based on the distortion correction formula corresponding to the zoom positions detected by the position detection unit.