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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:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2013
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); H04N 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2013.01); H04N 13/0018 (2013.01); H04N 13/0022 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a modifying unit configured to modify depth information representing depths in individual pixels of an image in accordance with content included in the image, thereby generating modified depth information, and an enhancing unit configured to perform a stereoscopic effect enhancement process of enhancing a stereoscopic effect of the image by using the modified depth information generated by the modifying unit.