Sony Corporation

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.

Suguru Ushiki

Takafumi Morifuji

Masami Ogata

Kuniaki Takahashi

Kyoko Fukuda

Yasunari Hatasawa

To reduce burden of a viewer at the time of performing stereoscopic display by a stereoscopic display device and to show a stereoscopic image in a natural and comfortable manner. A disparity estimating unitestimates disparity from the left and right images of an input image to generate a disparity map. A disparity analyzing unitanalyzes the disparity map to generate a disparity control parameter for performing suitable disparity control. A disparity control unitcontrols the content of processing at an image conversion unitin accordance with the disparity control parameter. The image conversion unitperforms image conversion on the input image based on the control by the disparity control unitto output an output image. The image conversion unitperforms image conversion of two steps. The image conversion unitperforms shift processing for shifting the relative positions of the left and right images of the input image in the horizontal direction as first step image conversion, for example. The image conversion unitperforms scaling processing for performing enlargement/reduction of the entire screen with each center of the left and right images as a reference, as second step image conversion, for example.

Stereoscopic image display system, disparity conversion device, disparity conversion method, and program

An image processing apparatus includes: an acquisition mechanism acquiring image data of a 3D image including a left-eye image and a right-eye image, and superimposed-area information being information on a superimposed area included in the left-eye image and the right-eye image; and a disparity detection mechanism detecting an amount of disparity in an area excluding the superimposed area identified by the superimposed-area information of the left-eye image and the right-eye image.

Data structure, image processing apparatus and method, and program

A parallax detection unit generates a parallax map indicating a parallax of each pixel of an image formed by right and left images and generates a reliability map indicating reliability of the parallax. A depth information estimation unit generates a depth information map indicating the depth of a subject on the image based on the right and left images. A depth parallax conversion unit converts the depth information map into a pseudo-parallax map using a conversion equation used to convert depth information to parallax information. A parallax synthesis unit synthesizes the parallax map and the pseudo-parallax map to generate a corrected parallax map based on the reliability map. The present technology is applicable to an image processing apparatus.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

There is provided an image processing apparatus including a left eye image input unit configured to input a left eye image (L image) which is a left eye image signal applied to three-dimensional image display, a right eye image input unit configured to input a right eye image (R image) which is a right eye image signal applied to three-dimensional image display, a parallax information generating unit configured to generate parallax information from the left eye image (L image) and the right eye image (R image), and a virtual view point image generating unit configured to receive the left eye image (L image), the right eye image (R image), and the parallax information, and generate virtual view point images including a view point image other than view points of the received LR images.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program for generating multi-view point image

An image processing apparatus includes a first display control unit that causes a display unit to display a first 3D image, a receiving unit that receives, from a user, a message indicating whether an amount of parallax of the first 3D image being displayed on the display unit is within an allowable range, a determining unit that determines an estimated allowable range on the basis of the message received by the receiving unit so that if the message indicates that the amount of parallax of the 3D image being displayed is not within the allowable range, the amount of parallax is not included in the estimated allowable range; and a second display control unit that causes the display unit to display a second 3D image on the basis of the estimated allowable range.

An image processing apparatus includes a first acquiring unit, a second acquiring unit, and a correction processor. The first acquiring unit acquires an intended viewing environment parameter, which is a parameter of an intended viewing environment, together with image data of a three-dimensional picture. The second acquiring unit acquires an actual viewing environment parameter, which is a parameter of an actual viewing environment for a user viewing the three-dimensional picture. The correction processor corrects the three-dimensional picture in accordance with a difference between the acquired intended viewing environment parameter and the acquired actual viewing environment parameter.

A reproduction apparatus reproduces image data of a left eye image and a right eye image of a 3D content recorded in a recording medium. The recording medium stores information about black border widths according to each parallax amount in periphery of right and left image frames between the left eye image and the right eye image. A post processing unit generates and outputs a border-attached left eye image and a border-attached right eye image by inserting an image having the obtained black border width according to the parallax amount in the periphery of the right image frame and an image having the obtained black border width according to the parallax amount in the periphery of the left image frame into the left eye image and the right eye image. The present invention can be applied to an image processing apparatus for processing image data of 3D images.

Data structure, image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

An image processing apparatus includes an attention region estimation unit that estimates an attention region which is estimated as a user paying attention thereto on a stereoscopic image, a parallax detection unit that detects a parallax of the stereoscopic image and generates a parallax map indicating a parallax of each region of the stereoscopic image, a setting unit that sets conversion characteristics for correcting a parallax of the stereoscopic image based on the attention region and the parallax map, and a parallax conversion unit that corrects the parallax map based on the conversion characteristics.

An image processing apparatus includes a viewing situation analyzing unit configured to obtain information representing a user's viewing situation of 3D content stored in a certain storage unit, and, based on a preset saving reference in accordance with a viewing situation of 3D content, determine a data reduction level of content data of the 3D content stored in the storage unit; and a data conversion unit configured to perform data compression of the content data of the 3D content stored in the storage unit in accordance with the determined data reduction level.

Disparity in a stereoscopic image is converted, according to features of a configuration element of an image that influences depth perception of a stereoscopic image. A disparity detecting unitdetects disparity from a left image L and right image R of an input image, and generates a disparity map dM. A disparity correction unitcorrects the disparity in the disparity map dM and generates a corrected disparity map dM'. A correction feature setting unitsets the correction features in the event of performing disparity correction in the disparity correction unit. The image synthesizing unitsynthesizes the left image L and right image R of the stereoscopic image based on the corrected disparity map dM&#x2032; and outputs the stereoscopic image made up of a left image L&#x2032; and right image R&#x2032; as an output image. Thus, a stereoscopic image having disparity according to the set correction features is output. The correction features therein are set according to the degree that the configuration element features such as size of disparity, position on screen, manner of special change and so forth influence the depth perception.

Stereoscopic image display system, disparity conversion device, disparity conversion method and program

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program for processing content based on user viewing situation

An image processing apparatus includes an input unit, a computing unit, a determining unit, and a 3D image processor. The input unit receives filter width information indicating the vertical size of each line constituting a polarizing filter, as well as position correction information indicating positional misalignment of the polarizing filter. The computing unit computes determination regions for each pixel on the basis of the information. The determination regions are used to determine whether individual pixels constituting a 3D image to be output are contained in a right-eye or a left-eye image region. On the basis of the determination regions, the determining unit determines whether each pixel is contained in a right-eye image region or a left-eye image region. The 3D image processor creates a 3D image from a right-eye image and a left-eye image according to pixel positions determined on the basis of determination results.

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Tokyo, Japan

Suguru Ushiki