Stereoscopic image processing apparatus and method

摘要

A stereoscopic image processing apparatus comprises a stereo processing circuit 6 and a pairing filter 13. The stereo processing circuit 6 identifies a correlated destination of each pixel block in a reference image in a comparative image by searching along the same horizontal line as the pixel block. The stereo processing circuit 6 also calculates the parallax of the pixel block based on a deviation between the position of the pixel block and the position of the correlated destination. The pairing filter 13 judges the smallest parallax in the parallaxes of the plural pixel blocks as a valid parallax when plural pixel blocks located on the same horizontal line in the reference image have the same correlated destination.