Patent Document ID: 9930318
Application ID: 14954590
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of processing a pair of images including a left eye image and a right eye image, each of said left and right eye images including image values of a first type, the method comprising: generating a first overall disparity value indicating a first overall level of difference between values of said first type in said left eye image and values of said first type in said right eye image; determining if said first overall disparity value is in a first difference range used to control performing of a first difference reduction operation, said first difference reduction operation being an operation on values of said first type included in at least one of said left eye image or said right eye image to reduce the overall difference between values of said first type in said left eye image and values of said first type in said right eye image; and performing said first difference reduction operation to reduce the first overall level of difference between values of said first type in said left eye image and values of said first type in said right eye image when said first overall disparity value is determined to be in said first difference range; wherein values of said first type are luminance values; wherein performing said first difference reduction operation to reduce the first overall level of difference between values of said first type includes performing a difference reduction operation on luminance values; the method further comprising: performing a second difference reduction operation to reduce a level of difference between values of a second type included in said left eye image and said right eye image, said values of the second type being chrominance values, said step of performing a second difference reduction operation including performing a chrominance difference reduction operation which performs a different amount of difference reduction than is applied by said first difference reduction operation; and wherein performing the second difference reduction operation includes making a maximum amount of change in chrominance values as part of a chrominance reduction operation which is lower than a maximum amount of change in luminance values performed during said first difference reduction operation.