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Granted Patent B2
US 9,025,012 · App. 13/221,870 · Granted May 5, 2015

Display control device, display control method, and program

Inventors: Yusuke Kudo (Kanagawa, JP); Takashi Kitao (Tokyo, JP); Ryo Fukazawa (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: Sony Corporation
H04N13/0025H04N13/0029
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Patent No.
US 9,025,012
App. No.
13/221,870
Granted
May 5, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provided a display control device including an image adjustment unit for taking, in a case one object image among an object image for a right eye to be observed by a right eye of a viewer and an object image for a left eye to be observed by a left eye of the viewer includes a non-matching portion not matching an other object image, the non-matching portion as an adjustment target image that is a target of adjustment, and adjusting the adjustment target image to be an image less clear than a base image that is the adjustment target image before adjustment, and a display control unit for performing control of stereoscopically displaying an object based on an object image after adjustment that is the one object image that has been adjusted by the image adjustment unit and the other object image.

Claims (42)

1. A display control device comprising:

an image adjustment unit for taking, in a case one object image among an object image for a right eye to be observed by a right eye of a viewer and an object image for a left eye to be observed by a left eye of the viewer includes a non-matching portion not matching an other object image, the non-matching portion as an adjustment target image that is a target of adjustment, and adjusting the adjustment target image to be an image less clear than a base image that is the adjustment target image before adjustment; and

a display control unit for performing control of stereoscopically displaying an object based on an object image after adjustment that is the one object image that has been adjusted by the image adjustment unit and the other object image,

wherein the image adjustment unit adjusts the adjustment target image to be an image less clear than the base image by causing at least one of transparency and intensity of blur of the adjustment target image to be greater than that of the base image.

2. The display control device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the image adjustment unit adjusts the adjustment target image in a case the object is stereoscopically displayed on a side nearer to the viewer than display positions of the object image after adjustment and the other object image.

3. The display control device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the image adjustment unit increases a degree of unclearness of each section in the adjustment target image as a distance to the each section from a matching portion, in the one object image, matching the other object image is greater.

4. The display control device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the image adjustment unit includes, in the adjustment target image, at least a part of a matching portion, in the one object image, matching the other object image.

5. The display control device according to claim 4 ,

wherein the image adjustment unit includes, in the adjustment target image, a portion, in the matching portion, near the non-matching portion.

6. The display control device according to claim 4 ,

wherein the image adjustment unit includes, in the adjustment target image, all of the one object image and the other object image.

7. A display control method comprising:

taking, in a case one object image among an object image for a right eye to be observed by a right eye of a viewer and an object image for a left eye to be observed by a left eye of the viewer includes a non-matching portion not matching an other object image, the non-matching portion as an adjustment target image that is a target of adjustment, and adjusting, using a processor, the adjustment target image to be an image less clear than a base image that is the adjustment target image before adjustment; and

performing, using the processor, control of stereoscopically displaying an object based on an object image after adjustment that is the one object image that has been adjusted and the other object image,

wherein the adjustment target image is adjusted to be an image less clear than the base image by causing at least one of transparency and intensity of blur of the adjustment target image to be greater than that of the base image.

8. The display control method according to claim 7 ,

wherein the adjustment target image is adjusted in a case the object is stereoscopically displayed on a side nearer to the viewer than display positions of the object image after adjustment and the other object image.

9. The display control method according to claim 7 ,

wherein a degree of unclearness of each section in the adjustment target image is increased as a distance to the each section from a matching portion, in the one object image, matching the other object image is greater.

10. The display control method according to claim 7 ,

wherein the adjustment target image includes at least a part of a matching portion, in the one object image, matching the other object image.

11. The display control method according to claim 10 ,

wherein the adjustment target image includes a portion, in the matching portion, near the non-matching portion.

12. The display control method according to claim 10 ,

wherein the adjustment target image includes all of the one object image and the other object image.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

taking, in a case one object image among an object image for a right eye to be observed by a right eye of a viewer and an object image for a left eye to be observed by a left eye of the viewer includes a non-matching portion not matching an other object image, the non-matching portion as an adjustment target image that is a target of adjustment, and adjusting the adjustment target image to be an image less clear than a base image that is the adjustment target image before adjustment; and

performing control of stereoscopically displaying an object based on an object image after adjustment that is the one object image that has been adjusted and the other object image,

wherein the adjustment target image is adjusted to be an image less clear than the base image by causing at least one of transparency and intensity of blur of the adjustment target image to be greater than that of the base image.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 13 ,

wherein, in the method, the adjustment target image is adjusted in a case the object is stereoscopically displayed on a side nearer to the viewer than display positions of the object image after adjustment and the other object image.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 13 ,

wherein, in the method, a degree of unclearness of each section in the adjustment target image is increased as a distance to the each section from a matching portion, in the one object image, matching the other object image is greater.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 13 ,

wherein, in the method, the adjustment target image includes at least a part of a matching portion, in the one object image, matching the other object image.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 16 ,

wherein, in the method, the adjustment target image includes a portion, in the matching portion, near the non-matching portion.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 16 ,

wherein, in the method, the adjustment target image includes all of the one object image and the other object image.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 31, 2011
From: KUDO, YUSUKE; KITAO, TAKASHI; FUKAZAWA, RYO
To: SONY CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (1)
JP P2010-200152 · Sep 7, 2010 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120056883A1 · Mar 8, 2012