Stereoscopic image processing and display system
An image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit and an information adding unit. The image obtaining unit obtains a base image for stereovision in a multiplex format or a side-by-side format, or obtains an original image and then converts it to such a base image. The information adding unit records information to be referred to for stereovision, such as the format of the base image and the number of assumed viewpoints, in a header of the image data.
1. A stereoscopic image display method comprising:
displaying an image to be stereoviewed on a screen of a display apparatus; and
shifting the image on the screen, and wherein,
a shift amount of the image is restricted to an integer multiplication of the number of different parallax images which compose the image multiplied by the number of dots which composes a pixel.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein in case that the image is displayed in a window, the shift unit is referred to at least on an occasion of scrolling the image in the window.
3. A stereoscopic image display apparatus comprising:
a shift instruction obtaining unit which obtains an instruction to shift an image to be stereoviewed on a screen; and
a shift processing unit which shifts the image according to the instruction, and wherein,
the shift processing unit shifts the image in such a manner that a shift amount of the image is restricted to an integer multiplication of the number of different parallax images which compose the image multiplied by the number of dots which composes a pixel.
4. The apparatus of claim 3 , further comprising a window display unit which displays a window for displaying the image on the screen, and wherein the shift processing unit puts a restriction by the shift unit on scrolling the image in the window.