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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2011
Applicants:
Takuya Nanri, Kanagawa, JP;
Hirofumi Nishimura, Kanagawa, JP;
Wenli Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/78 (2006.01); G01C 11/06 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/78 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30252 (2013.01); G06T 7/0075 (2013.01); G06T 7/0051 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30268 (2013.01); G01C 11/06 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30201 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20048 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is a stereo image processing apparatus and a method of processing a stereo image, wherein calculation precision of disparity is improved, while maintaining a processing amount equal to the SAD method. In the stereo image processing apparatus (), a data deletion unit () is installed in a stage prior to an image matching unit () and a filter unit (), and forms a thinned-out target image and a thinned-out reference image, by thinning out a target image and a reference image. The filter unit () carries out filtering that uses an inverted phase filter, which is matching based on phase correlation.