STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE SYNTHESIZING DEVICE, SHAPE DATA GENERATION METHOD, AND ITS PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a stereoscopic image synthesizing device for outputting stereoscopic image data and shape data by presenting the live stereoscopic image photographed by a video camera by a stereoscopic video display device, and presenting a haptic and tactile sense appropriate to the stereoscopic image by a haptic/tactile sense presenting device.

SOLUTION: In this stereoscopic image synthesizing device for synthesizing stereoscopic images from a left image obtained by imaging an object from the view point of the left eye and a right image obtained by imaging the object from the view point of the right eye, a shape calculation part 405 calculates the shape data of the object from the distance image of the input object. A shape video space adjusting part 407 converts the shape data calculated by the shape calculation part 405 into the display space of the stereoscopic images to be synthesized by its own device. A shape data output part 409 outputs the shape data converted by the shape video space adjusting part 407 to a haptic/tactile sense presenting device.

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