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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2012
Takafumi Morifuji, Tokyo, JP;
Kyoko Fukuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Masami Ogata, Kanagawa, JP;
Suguru Ushiki, Tokyo, JP;
Takafumi Morifuji, Tokyo, JP;
Kyoko Fukuda, Kanagawa, JP;
Masami Ogata, Kanagawa, JP;
Suguru Ushiki, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.