Patent Document ID: 8989480
Application ID: 12911332
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An apparatus estimating a disparity of three view images, the apparatus comprising: a global matching unit to calculate a first path in 3D coordinates where a cumulative value of a movement cost is a minimum by performing dynamic programming on three views, the three views corresponding to a left view, a center view, and a right view, to extract a disparity map and an occlusion map of each of the three views based on the first path; a local matching unit to perform the dynamic programming on two neighboring views of the three views to extract two disparity maps where an occlusion region of the disparity map is supplemented; and a final map calculation unit to calculate a final disparity map by combining the two disparity maps, wherein the 3D coordinates are obtained by configuring an x-axis value of each of the left view, the center view, and the right view to correspond to a value of each of a first-axis, a second-axis, and a third-axis of the 3D coordinates.