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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1995
Hideaki Mitsutake, Tokyo, JP;
Jun Tokumitsu, Sagamihara, JP;
Shigeyuki Suda, Yokohama, JP;
Tatsushi Katayama, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
It is disclosed that in order to form an image of which the continuity is not lost from the image information of an area in which a double image exists and the vicinity thereof and prevent the deterioration of the image, an image processing portion to which video signals from left and right image taking systems are input has an image input portion, an image conversion portion and a synthesized image memory. The image conversion portion has a corresponding point sampling unit for sampling pairs of corresponding points corresponding to the same portion of an object from the video signals, a double image area-dividing unit for effecting the area division of a double image on the basis of the information of the three-dimensional positions of the sampled pairs of corresponding points, a double image mode-discriminating judging unit for determining an image of greater probability with which each double image is connected to a double image non-generating area, and an either image of two systems and common images of two ones simultaneous-removal unit which uses as synthesized image forming data the image determined to be more probably connected to the double image non-generating area by the double image mode-discriminating judging unit, and removes the other image.