IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20130187907A1
• Filed: 01/16/2013
• Published: 07/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Saturn Licensing LLC (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Someya, Kiyoto
• Application Number:
  US13/742,547
• Publication Number:
  US 20130187907A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/00 3D [Three Dimensional] image rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/128 Adjusting depth or disparity
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/359 Switching between monoscopic and stereoscopic modes

Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes an information obtaining unit configured to obtain parallax adjustment information with regard to a parallax-adjusted three-dimensional display material and an image transform unit configured to perform an inverse transform processing on the parallax-adjusted three-dimensional display material to be restored to a material before the parallax adjustment on the basis of the parallax adjustment information obtained by the information obtaining unit and generate a two-dimensional display material.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

an information obtaining unit configured to obtain parallax adjustment information with regard to a parallax-adjusted three-dimensional display material; and

an image transform unit configured to perform an inverse transform processing on the parallax-adjusted three-dimensional display material to be restored to a material before the parallax adjustment on the basis of the parallax adjustment information obtained by the information obtaining unit and generate a two-dimensional display material.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the image transform unit enlarges an image or performs an interpolation processing on an area where the image does not exist to eliminate the area without the existence of the image through the inverse transform processing.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the image transform unit enlarges the image in accordance with an adjustment amount of the parallax adjustment to eliminate the area without the existence of the image.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 2,

wherein the image transform unit enlarges the image in accordance with a maximum adjustment amount of the parallax adjustment to eliminate the area without the existence of the image.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 4,

wherein the image transform unit enlarges the image in accordance with a maximum adjustment amount of the parallax adjustment for each scene to eliminate the area without the existence of the image.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein in a case where an entire image is shifted in the parallax adjustment, the image transform unit shifts the entire image in an opposite direction in the inverse transform processing.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein in a case where an object is shifted in the parallax adjustment, the image transform unit shifts the object in an opposite direction in the inverse transform processing.

8. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the information obtaining unit obtains identification information indicating whether or not the three-dimensional display material is the parallax-adjusted material, and

wherein in a case where a three-dimensional display is carried out, when the identification information obtained by the information obtaining unit indicates that the parallax adjustment is not conducted, the image transform unit performs the parallax adjustment.

9. An image processing method comprising:

obtaining parallax adjustment information with regard to a parallax-adjusted three-dimensional display material; and

performing an inverse transform processing on the parallax-adjusted three-dimensional display material to be restored to a material before the parallax adjustment on the basis of the obtained parallax adjustment information and generating a two-dimensional display material.

10. A program for causing a computer to execute an image processing on a three-dimensional display material, the image processing comprising:

obtaining parallax adjustment information with regard to a parallax-adjusted three-dimensional display material; and

performing an inverse transform processing on the parallax-adjusted three-dimensional display material to be restored to a material before the parallax adjustment on the basis of the obtained parallax adjustment information and generating a two-dimensional display material.