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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2015
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Takanori Ishikawa, Saitama, JP;
Yasuhide Hyodo, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 13/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/0022 (2013.01); H04N 13/0484 (2013.01); G06K 9/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided an image processing method including acquiring a degree of attention of a viewer to a stereoscopic input image, acquiring a relation between the degree of attention and a disparity value for stereovision from each pixel of the input image, and weighting a disparity value of a pixel having the high degree of attention on the basis of the relation between the degree of attention and the disparity value, and increasing the disparity value of the pixel having the high degree of attention.