IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately detect the parallax of a stereoscopic image composed of a right image and a left image.SOLUTION: A parallax detection unit generates, from a right image and a left image, a parallax map indicating the parallax of each pixel in the images, and generates a reliabili...

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Main Authors MORIFUJI TAKAFUMI, USHIKI SUGURU, OGATA MASAMI
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 20.12.2012
Subjects
ADVERTISING
ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICESUSING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
CRYPTOGRAPHY
DISPLAY
EDUCATION
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRICITY
IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
PHYSICS
PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
SEALS
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Summary:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately detect the parallax of a stereoscopic image composed of a right image and a left image.SOLUTION: A parallax detection unit generates, from a right image and a left image, a parallax map indicating the parallax of each pixel in the images, and generates a reliability map indicating likelihood of the parallax. A depth information estimation unit, from the right image or the left image, generates a depth information map indicating the depth of a subject on the image. A depth parallax conversion unit converts the depth information map into a pseudo parallax map using a conversion expression for converting depth information into parallax information. A parallax synthesis unit synthesizes the parallax map and the pseudo parallax map using the reliability map to generate a corrected parallax map. The present invention is applicable to an image processing apparatus.
Bibliography:Application Number: JP20110126403