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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2012
Keisuke Hayata, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroto Tomita, Fukuoka, JP;
Tomoo Kimura, Fukuoka, JP;
Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America, Torrance, CA (US);
Abstract
The picture quality of captured images can be improved with the degradation of clearness of image-captured object boundaries suppressed. An image processing apparatus () comprises: an image/distance acquiring unit () that acquires corresponding pixel pairs between left-eye and right-eye images, its depth information and its matching scores; a weight information calculating unit () that determines, for each of the pixel pairs, a weight of each of the pixels in a certain area including, as pixels of interest, the pixel pair on the basis of the depth information and the matching scores; and a pixel value superimposing unit () that applies, for each of the pixel pairs, the weight to the pixel values in the aforementioned certain area, thereby performing a smoothing process in at least one of the two images and that superimposes the two images using the values obtained by the smoothing process.