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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013

Filed:

Oct. 14, 2010
Applicants:

Eiji Ishiyama, Saitama, JP;

Atsushi Misawa, Saitama, JP;

Koichi Yahagi, Saitama, JP;

Yitong Zhang, Saitama, JP;

Hisashi Endo, Saitama, JP;

Koichi Tanaka, Saitama, JP;

Takeshi Okubo, Saitama, JP;

Mikio Watanabe, Saitama, JP;

Inventors:

Eiji Ishiyama, Saitama, JP;

Atsushi Misawa, Saitama, JP;

Koichi Yahagi, Saitama, JP;

Yitong Zhang, Saitama, JP;

Hisashi Endo, Saitama, JP;

Koichi Tanaka, Saitama, JP;

Takeshi Okubo, Saitama, JP;

Mikio Watanabe, Saitama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An image processing apparatus that an image input unit; a parallax acquisition unit configured to acquire a per-pixel or per-region parallax between two-viewpoint images; a main subject detection unit configured to detect a main subject on the two-viewpoint images; a parallax acquisition unit configured to acquire a parallax of the main subject; a setting unit configured to set a conversion factor of the parallax; a correction unit configured to correct the conversion factor of the parallax per pixel, per region, or per image; a multi-viewpoint image generation unit configured to convert at least one image of the two-viewpoint images in accordance with the corrected conversion factor of the parallax; an image adjustment unit configured to shift the two-viewpoint images or multi-viewpoint images to obtain a parallax appropriate for stereoscopic view; and a stereoscopically-displayed image generation unit configured to generate a stereoscopically-displayed image.


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