Restoration of the fov of images for stereoscopic rendering

A method comprising:

• receiving a plurality of frames of a scene captured from a camera array;
• selecting a first frame and a second frame from the plurality of frames;
• rectifying and aligning the first frame and the second frame to a reference frame, wherein a blank region of the second frame has a greater area than a blank region of the first frame;
• transforming the first frame to have near-optimal superposition to the second frame;
• and
• inserting a patch from the transformed first frame into the blank region of the second frame.

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions that when executed cause a processor to:

• receive a plurality of frames of a scene captured from a camera array;
• select a first frame and a second frame from the plurality of frames;
• rectify and align the first frame and the second frame to a reference frame, wherein a blank region of the second frame has a greater area than a blank region of the first frame;
• transform the first frame to have near-optimal superposition to the second frame;
• and
• insert a patch from the transformed first frame into the blank region of the second frame.