Stereoscopic image capturing device and stereoscopic image capturing method
AssigneePanasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
InventorsTetsuro Kawamoto, Takeshi Ito, Takuma Chiba, Masanobu Inoe
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Abstract
A camera unit that captures and generates a plurality of images of a subject and a setting unit that sets different image capturing positions of the camera unit are provided. The setting unit sets the different image capturing positions so that the distance between an n-th image capturing position and an n+1th image capturing position and the distance between an m-th image capturing position and an m+1th image capturing position among the different image capturing positions differ from each other, where n and m are different natural numbers.
Claims10
A stereoscopic image capturing apparatus comprising:
- at least one camera capable of capturing a subject;
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- a camera holder configured to hold the at least one camera, the camera holder having at least a first image capturing position, a second image capturing position, and a third image capturing position,
- wherein the first image capturing position, the second image capturing position and the third image capturing position are arranged on a line,
- wherein the stereoscopic image capturing apparatus is configured to output at least:
- a first stereoscopic image with a first image of the subject captured by the at least one camera at the first image capturing position and a second image of the subject captured by the at least one camera at the second image capturing position, and
- a second stereoscopic image with the second image and a third image of the subject captured by the at least one camera at the third image capturing position,
- wherein a first distance between the first image capturing position and the second image capturing position, is shorter than a second distance between the second image capturing position and the third image capturing position,
- wherein a reference point is located on the line other than at an image capturing position, and between the first image capturing position and the second image capturing position which are set consecutively, and between the second image capturing position and the third image capturing position which are set consecutively, and
- wherein a straight line connecting the subject and the reference point is substantially perpendicular to the line.
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