Patent Document ID: 20120269424
Application ID: 13287470
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A stereoscopic image generation method comprising: a characteristic information acquisition step of acquiring characteristic information for each of pixels constituting an original image; a depth information generation step of generating depth information for each of the pixels on the basis of the characteristic information; and a stereoscopic image generation step of generating a stereoscopic image in which positions of the respective pixels are changed on the basis of the pieces of depth information, wherein the depth information generation step includes an edge setting step of setting an edge for each of pairs of pixels extracted from the original image, a weight information setting step of setting weight information for each of the edges on the basis of the characteristic information, a start area selection step of selecting a start area from the pixels, a path information setting step of computing a path with regard to the weight information from the start area to each of the pixels and setting path information for each of the pixels, and a depth determination step of setting the depth information for each of the pixels on the basis of the path information for the pixel.