Patent Document ID: 20160191890
Application ID: 14961465
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire a first image and a second image that form stereoscopic images; a first sub-image extracting unit configured to extract first sub-images from the first image; a second sub-image extracting unit configured to extract second sub-images from the second image; a matching unit configured to match each pair of the first and second sub-images to determine a degree of similarity between the pair of the first and second sub-images; a similar sub-image setting unit configured to, for each of the first sub-images extracted by the first sub-image extracting unit, set the second sub-image having a highest degree of similarity to the first sub-image, among the second sub-images extracted by the second sub-image extracting unit, to be a similar sub-image corresponding to the first sub-image; and a brightness comparing unit configured to compare in brightness each pair of the first and second sub-images, wherein the matching unit is configured to, if a result of comparison made by the brightness comparing unit between a pair of the first and second sub-images is out of a predetermined brightness range, exclude such a pair of the first and second sub-images from the pairs of the first and second sub-images to be matched.