Abstract: An image display device, a viewing device, and a method for operating the same are provided. The method includes pairing a first viewing device with the image display device; displaying a first image corresponding to a first channel during a first period in synchronization with the first viewing device so that the first image can be viewed with the use of the first viewing device; and displaying a second image during a second period subsequent to the first period in synchronization with the first viewing device so that the second image cannot be viewed with the use of the first viewing device. This allow users to concurrently view different images using different viewing devices on a single image display device.

Abstract: An image display device, a 3D viewing device, and a method for operating the same are provided. The method includes receiving a synchronization signal from an image display device, alternately opening a left glass and a right glass according to the synchronization signal, and simultaneously opening the left glass and the right glass in a left-eye image display period or a right-eye image display period of a 3D image displayed on the image display device when a period of the synchronization signal has changed. This ensures that a user reliably (or correctly) views 3D or 2D images using the 3D viewing device.

Abstract: A stereo image displaying method adapted to a polarizing panel is provided. The stereo image displaying method includes the following steps. An original first eye image and the original second eye image are received. Each of the odd pixel data rows of the original first eye image is interpolation operated with at least one of two adjacent even pixel data rows of original the first eye image to serve as one of a plurality of pixel data rows of a first eye image of a display frame. Each of the even pixel data rows of the original second eye image is interpolation operated with at least one of two adjacent odd pixel data rows of the original second eye image to serve as one of a plurality of pixel data rows of a second eye image of the display frame. The display frame is applied on the polarizing panel.

Abstract: An exemplary method includes an adjunct content presentation system including adjunct content within a first image of a media content instance and a second image of the media content instance by setting a pixel value of a first group of pixels included in the first image and a pixel value of a second group of pixels included in the second image and corresponding to the first group of pixels to each be substantially equal to one pixel value unit greater than a predetermined neutral pixel value, including the adjunct content within a compensating image by setting a pixel value of a third group of pixels included in the compensating image and corresponding to the first and second groups of pixels to be substantially equal to two pixel value units less than the predetermined neutral pixel value, and presenting the first image, the second image, and the compensating image.

Abstract: A method and system for securing visual media utilizing an encoding process with optical translation for decoded image viewing having the steps of displaying a first image for viewing by a user, generating a second image that is substantially a negative of the first image, displaying the first and second image through a stereoscopic projection system using at least two separate channels of the system to create a displayed garbled image decoding the displayed image by cancellation of the second image from the view of said user. The system may also employ active and passive 3D glasses or other decoder and generate interference and other signals to obscure the desired image before decoding. The system may also be used with handheld display devices such as tablets, notebooks and smart phones utilizing decoding screens or user wearable devices.

Abstract: A timing signal generation unit of a content playback device generates a shutter control signal requesting the opening or closing of a shutter of a lens among one or more lenses of a pair of shutter glasses worn by a user viewing a display panel adapted to display content, and a backlight control signal requesting a backlight of the display panel to be turned on at least when the shutter is open. A transmitter unit transmits the shutter control signal to the shutter glasses. The timing signal generation unit changes at least one of the timing of turning on the backlight or the timing of opening the shutter of the lens of the shutter glasses.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display device includes a display panel and an optical lens assembly. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The display panel temporally divides M view images corresponding to M viewing spaces to display the temporally divided image on a display panel. ‘M’ is a natural number of no less than two. The optical lens assembly converts the view image displayed on the display panel into N stereoscopic images in which directions of the view images are different from each other to emit the converted view image toward a viewing space corresponding to the view image displayed on the display panel. ‘N’ is a natural number no less than two.

Abstract: Discloses herein are methods, apparatuses, and systems for preparing and displaying images in frame-sequential stereoscopic 3D. Frame-sequential stereoscopic display includes an alternating sequence of left- and right-perspective images for display. Disclosed methods include identifying pixels that modulate due to the alternating sequence of left- and right-perspective images of the frame-sequential stereoscopic display. The disclosed methods also include processing the pixels to reduce one or more residual images caused by the alternating sequence of left- and right-perspective images of the frame-sequential stereoscopic display. The disclosed methods may be implemented by a processing unit and the processing unit may be included in a system (such as, a computer or video-game console).

Abstract: A display apparatus for reducing an afterimage and a driving method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a video processor which divides and outputs each of frames constituting the left-eye image and the right-eye image into a plurality of sub-frames which have different sustaining times when the left-eye image and the right-eye image are input; a display unit which displays an image based on the divided sub-frames; and a controller which prevents recognition of at least one sub-frame among the plurality of sub-frames on the basis of the sustaining times of the plurality of sub-frames, thus presenting a clear image.

Abstract: The multi-person stereo display system permits several independent viewers to see different stereo images on a single projection surface. This is accomplished through the innovative use of video multiplexing, software, control electronics, and special viewing glasses. The system is particularly useful in situations where the viewers see computer generated images from their own independent perspectives.

Abstract: A glasses apparatus is provided. The glasses apparatus includes: a first retarder which delays phases of a first image and a second image which are output from a display apparatus, a second retarder which delays the phases of the first image and the second image in a direction different from that of the first retarder, a first shutter glass and a second shutter glass which change polarization properties of the first image and the second image, optical axes of which are rotated according to whether power is supplied or not, and a controller which controls to selectively supply the power to the first shutter glass and the second shutter glass so that a user selectively views the first image and the second image.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for computing a three dimensional model of a surface of an object are disclosed. At least one directional energy source (106-109) directionally illuminates the object (101). An imaging assembly (104), having at least two spatially separated viewpoints (111,112) at fixed positions relative to each other, records a series of images of the object at each viewpoint when the object is illuminated by the source. At least one localisation template (102,103) having predetermined geometrical features is visible to at least one of the viewpoints simultaneously with the object. The images recorded at the viewpoints are analysed so as to determine the location and pose of each viewpoint relative to the template for each image in the series of images. Photometric data for the object is generated using the calculated location and pose of the viewpoints and the image data.

Abstract: An image display method can make the total time of light emission longer per display line.

Abstract: A normal three-dimensional image is presented to a person who is wearing glasses for three-dimensional image observation, and additional information including a message, disturbance information, or the like is presented to a person who is not wearing glasses for three-dimensional image observation. An image display apparatus displays, on a display unit, an image frame sequence in which additional information image frame including additional information is added between an image frame for the left eye and an image frame for the right eye. At a display timing of the additional information image frame for the display unit, the image display apparatus outputs a control signal that sets shutters for both the left and right eyes of glasses for three-dimensional image observation worn by an observer to a closed state.

Abstract: A three-dimensional viewing device for providing images to a user includes a receiver receiving source 3D synchronization signals from a transmitting device, wherein the source 3D synchronization signals comprise a source frequency and a source phase, a plurality of LCD shutters including a right LCD shutter and a left LCD shutter are for alternatively entering a translucent state in response to local 3D synchronization signals in response to the source 3D synchronization signals, and an adjustment portion for adjusting parameters of the local 3D synchronization signals in response to parameters of the source 3D synchronization signals.

Abstract: A method for adjusting an ambient brightness received by a pair of shutter glasses which are operative under a two-dimensional image viewing mode includes: generating an ambient brightness control signal; and adjusting a shutter-open period of eyeglass (s) of the shutter glasses according to the ambient brightness control signal, for adjusting a length of the shutter-open period of the eyeglass (s) to be longer than an activation time length of a backlight of a display device so as to adjust the received ambient brightness.

Abstract: A projector includes a discharge lamp, a discharge-lamp driving unit, a control unit, a light modulating element, and a projection optical system. The control unit alternately repeats a high luminance period in which a driving current having a relatively large absolute value is supplied to the discharge lamp and a low luminance period in which the driving current having a relatively small absolute value is supplied to the discharge lamp. The control unit controls the discharge-lamp driving unit according to a driving current waveform formed by the control waveform unit including a direct-current waveform pattern in which the driving current in a first high luminance period, the driving current in a first low luminance period immediately after the first high luminance period, and the driving current in a second high luminance period immediately after the first low luminance period have the same first polarity.

Abstract: A method of synchronizing a display device is presented. The method of synchronizing the display device according to various embodiments includes the steps of: receiving a message from an eyeglass device and confirming the eyeglass device that is to perform synchronization based on the received result; transmitting transmission timing information on a beacon packet having a control signal of the eyeglass device to the eyeglass device; and transmitting the beacon packet to the eyeglass device according to the transmission timing information.

Abstract: An image display method includes alternately receiving left and right images of a 3D image; and turning on a backlight such that the backlight is on only in periods when the left images are displayed or only in periods when the right images are displayed. A method of controlling shutter glasses separately for left and right images of a three-dimensional (3D) image includes alternately receiving the left and right images of the 3D image; and opening two shutters of the shutter glasses only in periods when the left images are received or only in periods when the right images are received.

Abstract: A method for displaying first and second stereoscopic images to first and second viewers provides the first viewer with a first decoding device having a first viewer differentiating element for receiving the first stereoscopic image and further having a first left- and right-eye differentiating elements for separating left- and right-eye images. The second viewer is provided with a second decoding device having a second viewer differentiating element for receiving the second stereoscopic image and further having a second left- and right-eye differentiating element. The first stereoscopic image is displayed to the first viewer by forming a first left-eye image and forming a first right-eye image, each over substantially half of the refresh period. The second stereoscopic image is displayed to the second viewer by forming a second left-eye image and forming a second right-eye image, each over substantially half of the refresh period.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided, including a video processor configured to process video data of contents, a display configured to display content views using the video data processed by the video processor, a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device which is paired with the display apparatus, and a control unit configured to assign a remote control right to a content view corresponding to the remote control right switching command from among the content views based on whether the remote control right switching command is received from the external device. If a remote control signal is received, the control unit performs an operation corresponding to the remote control signal with respect to the content view having the remote control right.

Abstract: A method for generating a signal to display a three-dimensional (3D) image, and an image display apparatus using the same are disclosed. The method includes receiving a first synchronization signal, generating a second synchronization signal, and generating an output signal. Therefore, a user may satisfactorily view a 3D image regardless of whether the synchronization signal received from a display device reports errors or whether there is an obstruction between the display device and shutter glasses.

Abstract: A head-mounted display apparatus and method of the control are provided. The apparatus includes a display unit, a signal processing unit processing an image signal received from an outside to display a first image on the display unit, a shutter glass performing a shutter operation to allow selective transmission of external light, a communication unit communicating with an external display apparatus, and a controller controlling the head-mounted display apparatus to operate in a selective one of a first mode, in which the head-mounted display apparatus operates corresponding to a second image displayed on the external display apparatus, and a second mode, in which the head-mounted display apparatus displays the image signal processed by the signal processing unit on the display unit as the first image, based on a preset event.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus executes a distortion correction on coordinates of a target pixel in a virtual viewpoint image based on distortion characteristics of a virtual camera and calculates coordinates in the virtual viewpoint image after the distortion correction. The image process apparatus calculates ideal coordinates in a captured image from the coordinates in the virtual viewpoint image after the distortion correction and calculates real coordinates in the captured image from the ideal coordinates in the captured image based on distortion characteristics of an imaging unit. The image process apparatus calculates a pixel value corresponding to the real coordinates from image data of the virtual viewpoint image and corrects the pixel value corresponding to the real coordinates based on ambient light amount decrease characteristics of the imaging unit and ambient light amount decrease characteristics of the virtual camera.

Abstract: System and method for synchronizing shutter glasses with a display system. An embodiment comprises displaying a first image from a first image stream on a display plane, displaying a second image from a second image stream on the display plane, and displaying a synchronization signal on the display plane, during a first, a second, and a third display period, respectively. The first image and the second image are displayed at least partially on the same area of the display plane and the first and the second display periods do not overlap. The display of the synchronization signal on the display plane enables the elimination of a dedicated synchronization signal broadcast unit, thereby reducing the cost while increasing the reliability of a display system.

Abstract: A method of driving a 3D image display device includes according to an embodiment receiving 3D data and separating a 3D input frame including the 3D data into a left-eye data frame and a right-eye data frame; doubling the left-eye data frame into the original left-eye data frame and a copied left-eye data frame and doubling the right-eye data frame into the original right-eye data frame and a copied right-eye data frame; and modulating the original left-eye data frame to a first modulated left-eye data frame based on the copied right-eye data frame arranged prior to the original left-eye data frame, modulating the copied left-eye data frame, and the copied right-eye data frame.

Abstract: An image display apparatus for displaying an image of an object on a screen by using a projector includes a three-dimensional image display unit having a plurality of screens overlaid but spaced apart from one another, each of the screens diffusing and reflecting part of the light incident thereon and transmitting the remainder of the light, and an image projection unit having a plurality of projectors, each of the projectors is assigned to the corresponding one of the screens and projects an image of the object on the screen. The image projection unit displays a three-dimensional image of the object in the three-dimensional image display unit by projecting on the screens the shapes of the object in sectioning positions corresponding to the positions of the screens.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display unit which outputs a plurality of content views using a plurality of image frames; an interface unit which is connected with a glasses apparatus according to a predetermined communication standard; a synchronization signal generator which generates a synchronization signal that synchronizes one of the plurality of content views with the glasses apparatus; and a controller which, when a glasses apparatus is connected, controls the display apparatus to synchronize the one of the plurality of content views with the glasses.

Abstract: A time multiplexed stereo display system is provided. The system includes a video player to output a sequence of image frames with respect to multiple stereo-displayed images. Each of the stereo-displayed images is formed by a first-view image and a second-view image with a parallax therebetween. The sequence of the image frames is sequentially displaying all of the first-view images and then sequentially displaying all of the second-view images to symmetrically transmitting first-view/second-view images. Further, a display panel receives the sequence of image frames for accordingly displaying the image frames. Multiple shutter eyeglasses, are controlled by the video player to transmit the stereo-displayed images, respectively, in accordance with the sequence of the image frames. Each of the shutter eyeglasses has a first-view glass and a second-view glass to accordingly transmit one of the first-view images and the second-view images in each display of the image frames.

Abstract: A three-dimensional viewing system includes a television having an electric circuit provided therein for the generation of alternating left-eye image and right-eye image on a screen, a micro controller unit provided inside the television and configured to extract a vertical synchronizing signal therefrom, a signal transmitting system for directly transmitting the vertical synchronizing signal to a pair of three-dimensional shutter glasses to be worn by the viewer in front of the television. The shutter glasses include left and right liquid crystal shutter lenses adapted to receive the vertical synchronizing signal and produce alternating transparency and opacity of the left and right shutter lenses. A switch unit connected to the left and right shutter lenses for independently switching the transparency and opacity thereof so that left eye of the viewer sees the left-eye image and right eye of the viewer sees the right-eye image to perceive a three-dimensional image.

Abstract: A video controller for synchronizing presentation of a plurality of images is provided. A color switching device is operable to continually select a color out of a set consisting essentially of a plurality of fundamental colors. Each fundamental color is selected for presentation for a fixed time segment. A light processing element is operable to block and permit transmission of light in each color selected by the color switching device during each fixed time segment. The light includes at least two streams of sequential images. A synch signal generator is in control of the light processing element and is configured to time presentation of the light by the light processing element and of control signals to a viewing device of the display. The presentation of the light and of the control signals is timed in synchrony with the fixed time segments only during a transition state of the viewing device.

Abstract: Three-dimensional (3D) glasses, a method for driving 3D glasses, and a system for providing a 3D image are provided. The 3D glasses driving method includes detecting a first pattern corresponding to a left eye image and a second pattern corresponding to a right eye image from a 3D display apparatus, converting the first pattern into a first histogram and the second pattern into a second histogram, comparing the converted first and second histograms with first and second optimal histograms, and adjusting an opening or a closing of a left eye glasses part and a right eye glasses part of the 3D glasses based on the comparison.

Abstract: A method for decoding a compressed image stream, the image stream having a plurality of frames, each frame consisting of a merged image including pixels from a left image and pixels from a right image. The method involves the steps of receiving each merged image; changing a clock domain from the original input signal to an internal domain; for each merged image, placing at least two adjacent pixels into an input buffer and interpolating an intermediate pixel, for forming a reconstructed left frame and a reconstructed right frame according to provenance of the adjacent pixels; and reconstructing a stereoscopic image stream from the left and right image frames. The invention also teaches a system for decoding a compressed image stream.

Abstract: In an image display device having a parallax barrier element, a bright display with a broad viewing range can be realized. The image display device according to the present invention includes: a display panel having a first group of pixels for displaying a first image and a second group of pixels for displaying a second image; and a parallax barrier element for separating display light emitted from the first group of pixels and display light emitted from the second group of pixels, the parallax barrier element including a plurality of light-shielding portions and a plurality of light-transmitting portions which are alternately positioned within the same plane. The parallax barrier element includes converging elements respectively provided for the plurality of light-transmitting portions.

Abstract: The display device includes a display panel on which sub-pixel pairs are arranged in a lateral direction, and a parallax barrier shutter panel on which sub-openings that can be changed between a light transmittance state and a light-shielding state are arranged in a lateral direction. Arbitrary allocated number of adjacent sub-openings among the plural sub-openings belonging to a reference parallax barrier pitch are put into a light transmittance state, and the remaining sub-openings are put into a light-shielding state, so that a general opening is formed on the parallax barrier shutter panel. A sub-opening pitch of the sub-opening on the boundary part between the adjacent common driving areas is different from the sub-opening pitch of the other sub-openings.

Abstract: A phase error detection unit measures a phase error between an external synchronization signal and a spectacles control signal that is fed back, more specifically, a discrepancy between vertical synchronization timing and shutter opening/closing timing, that is, jitter. A timing correction unit corrects the shutter opening/closing timing, using the measured jitter. Specifically, a parameter indicating the corrected shutter opening/closing timing is written to a storage unit. The storage unit stores a parameter used to generate the spectacles control signal, for example, the parameter indicating the shutter opening/closing timing. A signal generation unit generates the spectacles control signal, using the parameter stored in the storage unit. A frequency divider divides the frequency of the spectacles control signal by n.

Abstract: An interface unit is described that comprises a buffer for storing captured video data generated by a three dimensional (3D) device intended for a 3D monitor. The interface unit further comprises a synchronization signal extractor configured to extract vertical synchronization (vsync) signals from the video data and a control signal unit configured to derive control signals for a viewing device based on the stored vsync signals. The interface unit transmits the control signals to the viewing device.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes a master/slave setting unit configured to execute at least one of setting of a master apparatus which displays a switching-display synchronization signal superposed on an image as a target to be displayed and setting of a slave apparatus which does not display the switching-display synchronization signal, a synchronization-signal superposition unit configured to superpose the switching-display synchronization signal on the image as the target to be displayed, when setting of the master apparatus is executed by the master/slave setting unit, and a display unit configured to display the image on which the switching-display synchronization signal is superposed by the synchronization signal superposition unit.

Abstract: A method for generating a signal to display a three-dimensional (3D) image, and an image display apparatus using the same are disclosed. The method includes receiving a first synchronization signal, generating a second synchronization signal, and generating an output signal. Therefore, a user may satisfactorily view a 3D image regardless of whether the synchronization signal received from a display device reports errors or whether there is an obstruction between the display device and shutter glasses.

Abstract: A stereoscopic image display and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The stereoscopic image display includes a display panel, that displays data of a 2D image in a 2D mode and display data of a 3D image in a 3D mode in a time division manner, and a data modulation unit that previously stores modified values satisfying a luminance of a predetermined gray level and modulates left eye image data or right eye image data input during a current frame period to a modified value selected based on the result of a comparison between right/left eye image data input during a previous frame period and the left/right eye image data of the current frame period using the previously stored modified values.

Abstract: Stereographic glasses includes reception-stop timing control means that is so arranged as to: (i) cause a wireless-signal receiving section to stop receiving signals, after a cycle detection section detects a cycle of synchronous signals and a liquid crystal shutter control data memory section stores liquid crystal shutter control data therein signals; (ii) cause a liquid crystal shutter control signal timing generation section to generate timings for controlling opening and closing of liquid crystal shutters, based on cycle signals generated by a cycle signal generation section and the liquid crystal shutter control data stored in the liquid crystal shutter control data memory section; and (iii) cause a liquid crystal shutter control section to open and close the liquid crystal shutters, at the timings thus generated.

Abstract: A distance to an object is measured for each of a series of left images, and the count of a distance range including the calculated distance increases. A distance range with the highest frequency of appearance is specified from the counter information of a distance table counter, and a left image in which the distance included in the specified distance range is measured is selected. The adjustment amount of the parallax amount adjusted for the selected left image and a corresponding right image is determined to be the adjustment amount of the parallax amount of a panorama image. A series of left images is combined to generate a panorama image and a series of right images is combined to generate a panorama image. A panorama image displayed in stereoscopic view is generated based on the determined adjustment amount of the parallax amount.

Abstract: The video display apparatus is provided that the breaking up of the video image should not be viewed by users when the frame rate of video content items is changed in association with the change in the number of viewed content items. The video display apparatus, which is capable of viewing a plurality of video content items using the shutter eyeglasses, controls the plurality of video content items by time-division, and performs the shutter control of the shutter eyeglasses in association with the display videos. When the number of video content items which are to be viewed is changed, the control section controls the shutters of all of the shutter eyeglasses so that they close for the frame period of the video content items that are first output after a change of the frame rate.

Abstract: An electronic interaction apparatus for providing a 3D MMI is provided with a processing unit. The processing unit determines a first length between an object positioned at a first time and a surface formed by two digital camera modules, and a second length between the object positioned at a second time and the surface. Also, the processing unit determines a third length between the object positioned at a third time and the surface, and determines a depth in a virtual 3D space corresponding to the object positioned at the third time according to the first length, the second length, and the third length. Particularly, the virtual 3D space is displayed in a display screen, the third time is later than the first time and the second time, and the third length is longer than the first length and shorter than the second length.

Abstract: A stereoscopic video display system includes a display device for displaying stereoscopic video, an image pickup element for generating image data, a position determiner for processing the image data received by the image pickup element to determine position information of at least one object identified in the image data, and a plurality of light output sections each having one or more light transmitters. Each light transmitter is configured to output timing signals having a signal strength based on the determined position information. The stereoscopic video display system also includes at least one set of shutter eyeglasses including a light receiving section for receiving timing signals output from at least one of the light transmitters of the light output sections.

Abstract: A display apparatus, a glasses apparatus and a control method are provided. The display apparatus includes a display which displays a plurality of contents, an audio signal processor which generates a single audio signal by signal-processing a plurality of audio data which correspond to each of the plurality of contents, and a communicator which transmits the signal-processed single audio signal to a glasses apparatus.

Abstract: A stereoscopic display apparatus includes: a plurality of light-emitting devices; a power supply line for supplying current to the light-emitting devices; a switching device provided on the power supply line; a glasses control circuit which generates a glasses control signal for setting, in a pair of shutter-type glasses, a non-viewable period in which both the right-eye image and the left-eye image are made non-viewable at the same time; and a power supply control circuit which generates a device control signal for setting, in the switching device, a voltage reduced period in which the voltage between the electrodes in the light-emitting device is reduced, in which the glasses control circuit and the power supply control circuit control the shutter-type glasses and the switching device, respectively, for setting the non-viewable period to be a period at least from a start to an end of the voltage reduced period.

Abstract: A method for controlling shutter glasses is utilized for viewing stereo images. A video output apparatus respectively outputs a first image and a second image during a plurality of image output periods, alternately. Each image output period includes an image driving period and an image stabilization period. The method includes controlling each of a first shutter lens and a second shutter lens to be switched between an on-state and an off-state. The first shutter lens stays in the on-state within image stabilization periods respectively corresponding to two successive first images, and is switched from the off-state to the on-state and then switched from the on-state to the off-state for at least one time during a time interval between the image stabilization periods respectively corresponding to the two successive first images.

Abstract: A multi-view display system comprises a display controller (307) which controls a display (301) to display a sequence of multi-view images in repeating view frames. A shutter device (311), such as shutter glasses, comprises at least two shutter elements arranged to switch between an open shutter mode and a less transparent closed shutter mode. Each shutter element is associated with a view of the plurality of views. A shutter driver (309) controls the shutter elements in repeating shutter frames (413) having a shutter time slot for each of the shutter elements. The shutter elements are in the open shutter mode during an allocated shutter time slot and otherwise in the closed shutter mode. The shutter frame rate of the repeating shutter frames is higher than a view frame rate of the repeating view frames. The invention may reduce flicker while maintaining a low frame rate, e.g. for 3D displays.

Abstract: A plurality of parallax images which are time-divisionally displayed are processed so that correct parallax can be displayed even during motion picture display. When a plurality of image streams of input signals to the video signal processing unit 120 are captured or generated with the same timing, interpolation processing for generating an interpolated image in terms of time is performed on at least one of the plurality of image streams, and the change of the apparent parallax is suppressed. More specifically, interpolation processing in terms of time is performed, so that a time difference of a time at which interpolation images of a plurality of image streams are generated is the same as a time difference of operation for separating the corresponding parallax images.