Stereoscopic image display control apparatus, and method and program for controlling operation of same
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorKei YAMAJI
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Abstract
Margins are prevented from being produced when the amount of parallax of a stereoscopic image has been enlarged. A parallax adjustment command is applied if a stereoscopic image is displayed in an image compositing area that has been defined on a page constituting an electronic album. The amount of parallax is enlarged in response to application of a command to enlarge the amount of parallax. If enlarging the amount of parallax will cause margins to be produced when the stereoscopic image is displayed in the image compositing area on the page, then this page is replaced by a page on which an image compositing area that will not produce margins has been formed.
Claims8
A stereoscopic image display control apparatus comprising:
- a first display control device for controlling a display unit so as to display a first superimposed image portion, which is obtained by superimposing a left-eye image and a right-eye image that constitute a stereoscopic image, in a first image compositing area that has been formed in a first template image;
- a parallax-amount enlarging device for enlarging a parallax amount, which is amount of horizontal offset between the left- and right-eye images, in response to a parallax-amount enlarging command;
- a margin determination device for determining whether margins will be produced in the first image compositing area in response to enlargement of the parallax amount by said parallax-amount enlarging device;
- a substituting device for substituting a second template image, in which has been formed a second image compositing area that will not produce margins, for the first template image in response to a determination by said margin determination device that margins will be produced;
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- a second display control device for controlling the display unit so as to display a second superimposed image portion, which is obtained by superimposing the left-eye image and the right-eye image having the parallax amount that has been enlarged by said parallax-amount enlarging device, in the second image compositing area of the second template image that has been substituted for the first template image by said substituting device.
A method of controlling operation of a stereoscopic image display control apparatus, comprising the steps of:
- controlling a display unit so as to display a first superimposed image portion, which is obtained by superimposing a left-eye image and a right-eye image that constitute a stereoscopic image, in a first image compositing area that has been formed in a first template image;
- enlarging a parallax amount, which is amount of horizontal offset between the left- and right-eye images, in response to a parallax-amount enlarging command;
- determining whether margins will be produced in the first image compositing area in response to enlargement of the parallax amount;
- substituting a second template image, in which has been formed a second image compositing area that will not produce margins, for the first template image in response to a determination that margins will be produced;
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- controlling the display unit so as to display a second superimposed image portion, which is obtained by superimposing the left-eye image and the right-eye image having the parallax amount that has been enlarged, in the second image compositing area of the second template image that has been substituted for the first template image.
A computer-readable program for controlling a computer of a stereoscopic image display control apparatus so as to:
- control a display unit so as to display a first superimposed image portion, which is obtained by superimposing a left-eye image and a right-eye image that constitute a stereoscopic image, in a first image compositing area that has been formed in a first template image;
- enlarge a parallax amount, which is amount of horizontal offset between the left- and right-eye images, in response to a parallax-amount enlarging command;
- determine whether margins will be produced in the first image compositing area in response to enlargement of the parallax amount;
- substitute a second template image, in which has been formed a second image compositing area that will not produce margins, for the first template image in response to a determination that margins will be produced;
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- control the display unit so as to display a second superimposed image portion, which is obtained by superimposing the left-eye image and the right-eye image having the parallax amount that has been enlarged, in the second image compositing area of the second template image that has been substituted for the first template image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.