Abstract: A stereoscopic image generation device that generates a stereoscopic image including a right-eye image and a left-eye image is provided. The stereoscopic image generation device includes an image enlarging/reducing unit that enlarges or reduces the right-eye image and the left-eye image which constitute stereoscopic image data, and a display control unit that performs control to display a stereoscopic image by showing the right-eye image and the left-eye image of the stereoscopic image data for a right eye and a left eye, respectively.

Abstract: To generate an image that enables effective suppression of the occurrence of binocular rivalry and that facilitates stereoscopic vision. A left-eye image feature point extraction unit (13b) and a right-eye image feature point extraction unit (13d) extract feature points from a left-eye image and a right-eye image, respectively. A number-of-non-corresponding-points calculation unit (13g) calculates, in a case where the feature points in one image among the left-eye image and the right-eye image, which are extracted by a left-eye image feature point extraction unit (13b) and a right-eye image feature point extraction unit (13d), are shifted a certain distance in the horizontal direction, the number of feature points in the one image that do not correspond to the feature points in the other image, for each shift distance. A disparity value adjustment unit (13h) adjusts a disparity value between the left-eye image and the right-eye image in accordance with the number calculated for each shift distance.

Abstract: An image processing device includes a viewing environmental light information acquirer and a sense-of-depth parameter adjustment amount calculator to adjust a sense-of-depth parameter (i.e., a parameter related to binocular cues and/or monocular cues) according to environmental light in a viewing environment. The viewing environmental light information acquirer is configured to acquire viewing environmental light information that is information related to environmental light in a viewing environment of a display device. The sense-of-depth parameter adjustment amount calculator is configured to calculate an adjustment amount of a sense-of-depth parameter of monocular cues and/or binocular cues used when the display device displays an image represented by image data based on the viewing environmental light information and image auxiliary data.

Abstract: In a stereoscopic image processing device, disparity distribution of a stereoscopic image can be adaptively transformed in accordance with visual characteristics of a person relating to stereoscopic vision. The stereoscopic image processing device includes a disparity distribution transformation section (30) that transforms disparity distribution of a stereoscopic image input by an input section (10). The disparity distribution transformation section (30) reduces a difference in disparity between adjacent pixels in an area of the stereoscopic image, in which the difference in disparity between the adjacent pixels is large.

Abstract: An unnatural pixel value that appears near the edge of an object included in a viewpoint-changed image, in which a viewpoint is changed, is effectively corrected.

Abstract: A stereo-image processing apparatus capable of adaptively converting, regarding stereo vision, a parallax distribution of a stereo image in accordance with human visual performance is provided. The stereo-image processing apparatus includes a continuity detection unit (31) that detects a parallax continuous region on the basis of the discontinuity of parallax values in a stereo image and a conversion processing unit (32) that performs processing for enhancing the parallax gradient of the parallax continuous region.

Abstract: There is provided a stereoscopic image processing apparatus with which a disparity can be correctly estimated even for an image in which a disparity has a vertical component. A stereoscopic image processing apparatus (10) includes an input unit (11) that receives a plurality of viewpoint images, an evaluation value calculation unit (12) that calculates, for a plurality of viewpoint images that have been received, an evaluation value relating to pixel similarity between viewpoint images and disparity continuity between viewpoint images, and a disparity map creation unit (13) that selects a combination of disparities of each pixel, for which the evaluation value that has been calculated is a minimum evaluation value, as a disparity of the pixel and creates a disparity map having a horizontal component and a vertical component.

Abstract: To provide a stereoscopic image processing device that can display an image that can be easily viewed stereoscopically by a viewer even in the case where there is a difference other than parallax between viewpoint images by reducing the difference without calculating the size of the difference. A stereoscopic image display device (1) includes a reference viewpoint image selection unit (12) that selects one of a plurality of viewpoint images as a reference viewpoint image, a parallax calculation unit (13) that calculates a parallax map between the reference viewpoint image and the remaining viewpoint image, an image generation unit (14) that generates a new remaining viewpoint image that corresponds to at least the remaining viewpoint image from the parallax map and the reference viewpoint image, and a display unit (16) that displays a stereoscopic image that includes at least the new remaining viewpoint image as a display element.

Abstract: To generate an image that enables effective suppression of the occurrence of binocular rivalry and that facilitates stereoscopic vision. A left-eye image feature point extraction unit (13b) and a right-eye image feature point extraction unit (13d) extract feature points from a left-eye image and a right-eye image, respectively. A number-of-non-corresponding-points calculation unit (13g) calculates, in a case where the feature points in one image among the left-eye image and the right-eye image, which are extracted by a left-eye image feature point extraction unit (13b) and a right-eye image feature point extraction unit (13d), are shifted a certain distance in the horizontal direction, the number of feature points in the one image that do not correspond to the feature points in the other image, for each shift distance. A disparity value adjustment unit (13h) adjusts a disparity value between the left-eye image and the right-eye image in accordance with the number calculated for each shift distance.

Abstract: There is generated an image where a guide image that represents a position in real space of a display unit configured to display a stereoscopic image and serves as a reference of depth in the stereoscopic image is overlapped on the stereoscopic image, thereby generating a stereoscopic image where a viewer can readily recognize a forward/backward position of an object within the stereoscopic image.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image generation device that generates a stereoscopic image including a right-eye image and a left-eye image is provided. The stereoscopic image generation device includes an image enlarging/reducing unit that enlarges or reduces the right-eye image and the left-eye image which constitute stereoscopic image data, and a display control unit that performs control to display a stereoscopic image by showing the right-eye image and the left-eye image of the stereoscopic image data for a right eye and a left eye, respectively.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an input portion 14 for inputting an image including a facial image; a facial image extracting portion 16 for extracting a facial image from the image; and an image generating portion 18 for enlarging the facial image in accordance with the size of the image and size of the facial image. The facial image is enlarged in accordance with an enlargement ratio calculated based on, for example, the number of pixels for the image and the number of pixels for the facial image.

Abstract: The video processing device enhances the perceived depth of video image obtained by an image obtaining unit, and is provided with: a depth information obtaining unit that obtains depth information indicating the distance in the depth direction of each of a plurality of image portions included in the video image; an image dividing unit that divides the video image, based on the depth information and the video image, into a plurality of image portions having different distances in the depth direction; and an image combining unit that combines the image portions divided at the image dividing unit and a depth-enhancing image used for enhancing the depth of the video image such that the depth-enhancing image is superposed onto one image portion and further that the other image portion having a shorter distance in the depth direction than the one image portion is superposed onto the depth-enhancing image.