	US 7,486,817 B2
	Apparatus for and method of generating image, and computer program product
Shingo Yanagawa, Kanagawa (Japan); Yasunobu Yamauchi, Kanagawa (Japan); Kazuki Taira, Tokyo (Japan); Rieko Fukushima, Tokyo (Japan); and Yuzo Hirayama, Kanagawa (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 28, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/67,662.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-057730 (JP), filed on Mar. 02, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0195478 A1, Sep. 08, 2005
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 382—154

20 Claims

1. An apparatus for generating stereoscopic display image data to be displayed on an integral-imaging or multi-view stereoscopic display device, comprising:

a stereoscopic display region calculator that calculates a stereoscopic display region that excludes a region where image frame distortion occurs depending on a position of an observer from a region in which density of light beams are larger than a threshold value, to reproduce a three-dimensional positional relationship in the image data when the image data is displayed on the stereoscopic display device, based on two-dimensional or three-dimensional image data to be displayed on the stereoscopic display device, a position of a target of regard of a virtual camera set in processing of rendering the image data in a two-dimensional manner in response to the light beams output from the stereoscopic display device, and orientations of the light beams output from the stereoscopic display device;

an image processor that performs image processing on image data outside a region representing the outside of the stereoscopic display region calculated by the stereoscopic display region calculator, the image processing being different from image processing on image data inside a region representing the inside of the stereoscopic display region; and

an image generator that generates the stereoscopic display image data from the two-dimensional or three-dimensional image data after processed by the image processor.