Image processing apparatus and image processing method

Abstract

There is provided an image processing apparatus including a parallax estimating unit that generates parallax information from a left visual point image to be an image signal for a left eye applied to multi-dimensional image display and a right visual point image to be an image signal for a right eye applied to the multi-dimensional image display, an interpolation direction control unit that controls changing of an interpolation direction of a virtual visual point image including a visual point image other than the left visual point image and the right visual point image, according to a parameter showing a degree of a variation based on the parallax information generated by the parallax estimating unit, and a virtual visual point image generating unit that generates the virtual visual point image in the interpolation direction of which the changing is controlled by the interpolation direction control unit.

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