APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENT VIEWER-CENTRIC DEPTH ADJUSTMENT BASED ON VIRTUAL FRONTO-PARALLEL PLANAR PROJECTION IN STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES

摘要

Provided is an image processing apparatus and method for adjusting a depth of stereoscopic images including a plane determining unit to determine a first predetermined plane parallel to a first image, a depth adjusting unit to determine a second point by projecting a first point of the first image onto the first plane in a direction of a first viewer's viewpoint associated with the first image, to determine a third point by moving the second point, according to a depth adjustment value, and to determine a fourth point by projecting the third point onto the first image in a direction from the first viewer's viewpoint to the third point, and an image synthesizing unit to generate a second image which represents the depth adjusted scene obtained from the first image by determining a color value of the fourth point.