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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2011
Markus Schlosser, Hannover, DE;
Jorn Jachalsky, Wennigsen, DE;
Ralf Ostermann, Hannover, DE;
THOMSON LICENSING, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for determining a disparity value for an object located in or to be placed into a stereoscopic image pair having an associated disparity map. First an area to be analyzed in one of the stereoscopic images is determined Then a histogram is built from disparity estimates of the associated disparity map that fall within the determined area. Subsequently a contiguous range of bins is searched in the histogram that also contains a sufficient number of pixels. Finally, a disparity estimate for the determined area is selected from the contiguous range of histogram bins.