IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

The picture quality of captured images can be improved with the degradation of clearness of image-captured object boundaries suppressed. An image processing apparatus (100) comprises: an image/distance acquiring unit (200) that acquires corresponding pixel pairs between left-eye and right-eye images and that also acquires depth information of the corresponding pixel pairs as well as matching scores thereof; a weight information calculating unit (300) that determines, for each of the corresponding pixel pairs, a weight of each of the pixels in a certain area including, as pixels of interest, that corresponding pixel pair on the basis of the depth information and the matching scores; and a pixel value superimposing unit (400) that applies, for each of the corresponding pixel pairs, the weight to the pixel values in the aforementioned certain area, thereby performing a smoothing process in at least one of the two images and that replaces the pixel values of the pixels of interest in the certain area by the values obtained by the smoothing process and thereafter superimposes the two images on the pixel-by-pixel basis.