STEREOSCOPIC ENDOSCOPE SYSTEM

摘要

A stereoscopic endoscope system includes: a corresponding point detection section that detects a position of an object in each of an image for the right eye and an image for the left eye based on right and left video signals; a horizontal position moving section that moves, based on a parallax between the image for the right eye and the image for the left eye and depth information of a stereoscopic video which are obtained from the detected positions, horizontal positions of the right and left video signals, by an amount of the parallax, respectively in directions determined according to the depth information; a vertical/horizontal inversion section that vertically and horizontally inverts the right and left video signals whose horizontal positions have been moved; and a stereoscopic signal combining section that combines the right and left video signals subjected to the vertical/horizontal inversion, and generates a stereoscopic video signal.

主权项

1. A stereoscopic endoscope system comprising:
a stereoscopic endoscope that obtains right and left image pickup signals; a stereoscopic monitor that displays a stereoscopic video corresponding to right and left video signals obtained as a result of predetermined video signal processing performed on the right and left image pickup signals that are obtained with the stereoscopic endoscope; a corresponding point detection section that detects a position of an object in each of an image for the right eye and an image for the left eye based on the inputted right and left video signals; a horizontal position moving section that moves, based on a parallax between the image for the right eye and the image for the left eye and depth information of the stereoscopic video, horizontal positions of the right and left video signals, by an amount of the parallax, respectively in directions determined according to the depth information, the parallax and the depth information being obtained based on the position in the image for the right eye and the position in the image for the left eye that are outputted from the corresponding point detection section; a vertical/horizontal inversion section that vertically and horizontally inverts the right and left video signals whose horizontal positions have been moved by the horizontal position moving section; and a stereoscopic signal combining section that combines the right and left video signals subjected to the vertical/horizontal inversion by the vertical/horizontal inversion section, and generates a stereoscopic video signal.