Device and method for stereoscopic image printing
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorMikio Watanabe
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Abstract
A method for stereoscopic image printing according to one aspect of the presently disclosed subject matter includes acquiring information on distribution of parallax of a multi-viewpoint image with two or more viewpoints; determining, based on the information on the distribution of parallax, a number of viewpoints of a stereoscopic image which is printed on a lenticular lens sheet; generating, if the number of viewpoints of the multi-viewpoint image is smaller than the determined number of viewpoints, a shortfall viewpoint image based on the inputted multi-viewpoint image; and printing a stereoscopic image which is made of the multi-viewpoint image and the generated viewpoint image.
Claims20
A stereoscopic image printing device, comprising:
- an image input unit configured to input a multi-viewpoint image with two or more viewpoints;
- an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on distribution of parallax of the inputted multi-viewpoint image;
- a number-of-viewpoint determination unit configured to determine, based on the information on the distribution of parallax acquired by the information acquisition unit, a number of viewpoints of a stereoscopic image which is printed on a lenticular lens sheet;
- a comparison unit configured to compare a number of viewpoints of the multi-viewpoint image inputted via the image input unit and the number of viewpoints determined by the number-of-viewpoint determination unit;
- a viewpoint image generation unit configured to generate, if the number of viewpoints of the multi-viewpoint image inputted via the image input unit is smaller than the number of viewpoints of the stereoscopic image which is printed on the lenticular lens sheet, a shortfall viewpoint image based on the inputted multi-viewpoint image;
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- a printing unit configured to print the stereoscopic image including the multi-viewpoint image inputted via the image input unit and the viewpoint image generated by the viewpoint image generation unit, on the lenticular lens sheet.
A method for stereoscopic image printing, comprising:
- an image input step of inputting a multi-viewpoint image with two or more viewpoints;
- an information acquisition step of acquiring information on distribution of parallax of the inputted multi-viewpoint image;
- a number-of-viewpoint determination step of determining, based on the acquired information on the distribution of parallax, a number of viewpoints of a stereoscopic image which is printed on a lenticular lens sheet;
- a viewpoint image generation step of comparing a number of viewpoints of the multi-viewpoint image inputted in the image input step and the number of viewpoints determined in the number-of-viewpoint determination step and generating a shortfall viewpoint image based on the inputted multi-viewpoint image if the number of viewpoints of the inputted multi-viewpoint image is smaller;
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- a printing step of printing the stereoscopic image including the multi-viewpoint image inputted in the image input step and the viewpoint image generated in the viewpoint image generation step, on the lenticular lens sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.