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US 2012/0237179 A1Published application
Stereoscopic image display control apparatus and method of controlling operation of same
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorDaisuke Kusuda
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Abstract
It is arranged so that a sense of discomfort will not be imparted to an individual observing a stereoscopic image. Cross-point information is recorded on a memory card on which stereoscopic moving image data has also been recorded. When the stereoscopic moving image is played back, an image representing a subject that is deeper than the cross point represented by the cross-point information is caused to blur. By causing blurring, the observer can be prevented from closely observing an image portion that exhibits too much parallax. Thus a sense of discomfort is not imparted to the observer.
Claims7
A stereoscopic image display control apparatus comprising:
- a stereoscopic image data reading unit for reading stereoscopic image data representing a stereoscopic image that has been recorded on a recording medium;
- across-point information reading unit for reading cross-point information that has been recorded on the recording medium and that represents across point at which parallax of the stereoscopic image vanishes;
- a first blurring unit for blurring an image portion, which represents a subject at a position deeper than the cross point represented by the cross-point information read by said cross-point information reading unit, in the stereoscopic image represented by the stereoscopic image data read by said stereoscopic image data reading unit, in such a manner that the deeper the subject relative to the cross point, the greater the amount of blurring becomes;
- a display control unit for controlling a display device so as to display the stereoscopic image in which the image portion representing the subject at the deeper position has been blurred by said first blurring unit;
- a parallax determination unit for determining whether parallax of an image portion representing a subject at a position shallower than the cross point in the stereoscopic image is equal to or greater than a threshold value;
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- a cross-point control unit, responsive to a determination by said parallax determination unit that parallax of an image portion representing a subject at a position shallower than the cross point is equal to or greater than a threshold value, for controlling the stereoscopic image data so as to move the cross point to an image portion representing a subject shallower than the position of the cross point represented by cross-point information read by said cross-point information reading unit in the stereoscopic image.
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A method of controlling operation of a stereoscopic image display control apparatus, comprising:
- reading, by a stereoscopic image data reading unit, stereoscopic image data representing a stereoscopic image that has been recorded on a recording medium;
- reading, by a cross-point information reading unit, cross-point information that has been recorded on the recording medium and that represents a cross point at which parallax of the stereoscopic image vanishes;
- blurring, by a first blurring unit, an image portion, which represents a subject at a position deeper than the cross point represented by the cross-point information read by said cross-point information reading unit, in said stereoscopic image represented by the stereoscopic age data read by said stereoscopic image data reading unit, in such a manner that the deeper the subject relative to the cross point, the greater the amount of blurring becomes;
- controlling, by a display control unit, a display device so as to display the stereoscopic image in which the image portion representing the subject at the deeper position has been blurred by said first blurring unit;
- determining, by a parallax determination unit, whether parallax of an image portion representing a subject at a position shallower than the cross point in the stereoscopic image is equal to or greater than a threshold value;
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- responsive to a determination by said parallax determination unit that parallax of an image portion representing a subject at a position shallower than the cross point is equal to or greater than a threshold value, controlling, by a cross-point control unit, the stereoscopic image data so as to move the cross point to an image portion representing a subject shallower than the position of the cross point represented by cross-point information read by said cross-point information reading unit in the stereoscopic image.
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