Apparatus and method for determining a disparity estimate
First Claim
1. A method for determining a disparity value for an object located in or to be placed into a stereoscopic image pair, the stereoscopic image pair having an associated disparity map having disparity estimates for individual pixels of the stereoscopic image pair, the method comprising:
- determining an area to be analyzed in one of the stereoscopic images;
retrieving those disparity estimates from the associated disparity map that are associated with pixels of the stereoscopic image pair that lie within the determined area;
building a histogram from the retrieved disparity estimates;
searching a contiguous range of histogram bins, each histogram bin of the contiguous range containing at least a specified minimum number of disparity estimates and the contiguous range containing in total at least a specified number of disparity estimates; and
selecting a disparity estimate for the determined area from the contiguous range of histogram bins.
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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.
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1. A method for determining a disparity value for an object located in or to be placed into a stereoscopic image pair, the stereoscopic image pair having an associated disparity map having disparity estimates for individual pixels of the stereoscopic image pair, the method comprising:
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determining an area to be analyzed in one of the stereoscopic images; retrieving those disparity estimates from the associated disparity map that are associated with pixels of the stereoscopic image pair that lie within the determined area; building a histogram from the retrieved disparity estimates; searching a contiguous range of histogram bins, each histogram bin of the contiguous range containing at least a specified minimum number of disparity estimates and the contiguous range containing in total at least a specified number of disparity estimates; and selecting a disparity estimate for the determined area from the contiguous range of histogram bins. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. An apparatus for determining a disparity value for an object located in or to be placed into a stereoscopic image pair, the stereoscopic image pair having an associated disparity map having disparity estimates for individual pixels of the stereoscopic image pair, wherein the apparatus comprises:
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a graphics analyzing block configured to determine an area to be analyzed in one of the stereoscopic images; a histogram building block configured to retrieve those disparity estimates from the associated disparity map that are associated with pixels of the stereoscopic image pair that lie within the determined area and to build a histogram from the retrieved disparity estimates; a searching block configured to search a contiguous range of histogram bins, each histogram bin of the contiguous range containing at least a specified number of disparity estimates and the contiguous range containing in total at least a specified number of disparity estimates; and a disparity estimation block configured to select a disparity estimate for the determined area from the contiguous range of histogram bins. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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