Patent ID: 6944328

Claim:
A data structure of a multocular digital stereo image file which is formed by a plurality of monocular images of different viewpoints, and is recorded as digital data on a computer-readable medium so as to be readable by a computer, wherein all image data including all pieces of image information of the plurality of monocular images, and stereo data as information which pertains to a construction as a stereo image except for the image information are inseparably arranged in construction units of a single file; wherein all the image data form parallel layout type stereo image data obtained by arranging the respective pieces of image information of the plurality of monocular images at different positional regions on one two-dimensional image; and wherein the parallel layout type stereo image data is obtained by forming a predetermined frame line on boundary regions of the plurality of monocular images to form predetermined frame line regions which correspond to outer frames wherein the plurality of monocular images are formed such that less than all of each of these images remains thereby eliminating a darkened or overlapping portion of the images to form a frame line having a width of one to several pixels in a boundary region or around the stereo image to visually identify the stereo image.