JP2011223640A - Electronic device and image output method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide users with a proper stereoscopic video without causing area where on an image is not displayed on a screen.SOLUTION: The electric device includes: parallax amount adjusting means which allows users to adjust parallax amount of a first image and a second image; enlargement means to enlarge the first image and the second image according to the adjustment of the parallax amount by the parallax amount adjusting means; and output means to output data of a third image corresponding to a first area of the enlarged first image and a fourth image corresponding to a second area of the enlarged second image.

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic device and an output method, and more particularly to an electronic device and an output method for outputting a stereoscopic moving image.

  With the development of technology in recent years, electronic devices that can output a moving image that can be viewed as a stereoscopic moving image by a user (hereinafter referred to as a stereoscopic moving image) have been proposed.

  As an example of a general providing method when this electronic device provides a stereoscopic video to a user, a right-eye image and a left-eye image with parallax can be shown only to the right eye and the left eye, respectively. A method for causing the user to view a moving image as a three-dimensional image can be given.

  When an electronic device provides a stereoscopic view of an image to a user, an image to be seen by each eye is suitably provided depending on factors such as the distance between the user and the screen, or the size of the displayed front screen. In some cases, the user cannot capture the stereoscopic video.

  For example, when displaying a stereoscopic video on a large display screen, the parallax between the image for the right eye and the image for the left eye becomes too large, and the user cannot properly recognize the stereoscopic video as a stereoscopic image. May end up. In view of this, a stereoscopic video display device capable of obtaining a stereoscopic video with a natural pop-out amount has been proposed (see Patent Document 1).

  However, in the above proposal, an area where no image is displayed on the display screen occurs.

International Publication No. 2004/082297

  A user appropriately views a stereoscopic video without generating an area where no image is displayed on the display screen.

  The electronic apparatus according to the present invention includes: a parallax amount adjusting unit that allows a user to adjust a parallax amount between the first image and the second image; An enlargement means for enlarging the image and the second image, and a third image corresponding to the first area of the stretched first image and a second area of the stretched second image Output means for outputting fourth image data.

1 is an overview diagram illustrating an example of a moving image display system according to a first embodiment. The conceptual diagram which shows an example of a user's viewing condition at the time of displaying a stereoscopic vision moving image. The conceptual diagram which shows an example of the mode of user viewing at the time of displaying a stereoscopic video with a large parallax. The block diagram which shows an example of the internal structure of DTV in 1st Embodiment. The conceptual diagram which shows an example of processing methods, such as image expansion of the stereoscopic video in 1st Embodiment. The conceptual diagram which shows an example of the process which arranges the image which the image arrangement | sequence part in 1st Embodiment performs. FIG. 3 is an overview diagram illustrating an example of a display screen of a DTV when displaying a UI image according to the first embodiment. The flowchart which shows an example of the parallax amount adjustment process which DTV in 1st Embodiment performs. The block diagram which shows an example of the internal structure of the ODD recorder in 2nd Embodiment.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

(First embodiment)
The first embodiment of the present invention will be described below.

  FIG. 1 is an overview diagram showing an example of a moving image display system 4 in the present embodiment. FIG. 1 shows a DTV 1, a display screen 2, shutter glasses 3, and a moving image display system 4.

  The DTV 1 is, for example, a digital television, and is an example of an electronic device in the present embodiment. The DTV 1 has a function of receiving moving image data from broadcast waves or other moving image playback devices and displaying a moving image on the display screen 2 based on the moving image data. The DTV 1 can selectively display a two-dimensional moving image that the user views as two dimensions and a stereoscopic moving image that can be viewed as a three-dimensional image. When displaying a stereoscopic video, the DTV 1 alternately displays a left-eye image and a right-eye image on which the parallax exists between the two screens on the display screen 2, and synchronizes this display with the shutter glasses 3. Thus, by transmitting an open / close signal for switching between shielding and transmission of the liquid crystal shutter, a stereoscopic video is provided to the user wearing the shutter glasses 3. In the present embodiment, the DTV 1 is shown as an example of an electronic device. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and various devices such as an STB (Set Top Box) and a PC (Personal Computer) are considered as examples of the electronic device.

  The shutter glasses 3 are provided with a liquid crystal shutter that can be shielded by the left eye lens and the right eye lens, respectively, and these lenses and the liquid crystal shutter are collectively referred to as a lens unit. In the present embodiment, the lens is described as a lens for the left eye, a lens for the right eye, etc., but is not limited thereto, and is not a lens but a flat plate made of a transparent material such as glass. Etc. The shutter glasses 3 open and close the liquid crystal shutters of the left and right lens units at different timings based on the liquid crystal shutter open / close signals received from the DTV 1 to provide a stereoscopic video to the user. For example, when a left-eye image is displayed on the DTV 1, the shutter glasses 3 close the liquid crystal shutter of the right-eye lens unit based on an open / close signal from the DTV 1 (blocking state), and the liquid crystal of the left-eye lens unit. With the shutter open (transmission state), the left eye image is shown only to the user's left eye. When the right eye image is displayed, the shutter glasses 3 closes the shutter of the left eye lens unit and opens the shutter of the right eye lens unit so that the right eye image is displayed only on the right eye of the user. show. By this operation, the user can grasp the moving image being viewed as a solid.

  The principle of stereoscopic viewing will now be described in detail. Humans usually view an object with the left eye and the right eye, which are located at different positions, and there is a parallax between the images seen by the left eye and the right eye. By synthesizing the image seen with the left eye and the image seen with the right eye in the brain where the parallax exists, a human can recognize the object being seen as a solid. Therefore, as described above, the left eye image and the right eye image each having a parallax can be viewed by the respective eyes, thereby allowing the user to perceive the moving image as a three-dimensional image. As described above, the shutter glasses 3 provide the user with the moving image of the DTV 1 as a stereoscopic image.

  The moving image display system 4 includes a DTV 1 and shutter glasses 3. When viewing a stereoscopic moving image, the user can view the stereoscopic moving image as a three-dimensional image by wearing the shutter glasses 3 and viewing the stereoscopic moving image displayed on the DTV 1.

  Next, problems that may occur when the DTV 1 displays a stereoscopic video will be described.

  FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of a state of viewing by the user when displaying a stereoscopic video.

  First, FIG. 2A shows the user's line of sight when the left-eye image 21 is shown only to the user's left eye. When the DTV 1 displays the left-eye image 21, the shutter glasses 3 transmit the left-eye lens based on the open / close signal transmitted from the DTV 1 and shield the right-eye lens from the user's right eye to the DTV 1. Hide the displayed image. As a result, the user views the left eye image 21 only with the left eye. In this case, the user's line of sight when viewing the object 22 drawn on the left-eye image 21 is a line of sight as shown by a broken line in the figure.

  Next, FIG. 2B shows the user's line of sight when the left eye image 21 and the right eye image 23 having parallax are shown only to the user's right eye. When the DTV 1 displays the right-eye image 23, the shutter glasses 3 transmit the right-eye lens based on the open / close signal transmitted from the DTV 1 and display the left-eye lens on the DTV 1 from the left eye of the user. Hide the image that is being viewed. As a result, the user views the right eye image 21 only with the right eye. In this case, the user is viewing the object 24 drawn on the right eye image 23 (substantially the same as the object 22). The line of sight is a line of sight as shown by a broken line in the figure.

  FIG. 2C is a diagram conceptually showing a combination of the lines of sight when the user views the left-eye image 21 with only the left eye and the right-eye image 23 with only the right eye. is there. Since the user recognizes that an object exists at a point where the right eye, the left eye, and the line of sight intersect, when viewing the object 22 with the left eye and the object 24 with the right eye, the user has the object 25 at the point where the line of sight intersects. Recognize as it exists. In this way, the user recognizes the stereoscopic video displayed as a plane as a stereoscopic.

  FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an example of a user viewing state when displaying a stereoscopic video with a large parallax.

  FIG. 3A shows a left-eye image 31, and an object 32 is drawn on the left-eye image 31. FIG. 3B shows a left-eye image 31 and a right-eye image 33 having parallax, and an object 34 is drawn on the right-eye image 33. The parallax between the left-eye image 31 and the right-eye image 33 is larger than the parallax between the left-eye image 21 and the right-eye image 23.

  FIG. 3C is a diagram conceptually showing a combination of the lines of sight when the user views the left eye image 31 only with the left eye and the right eye image 33 only with the right eye. is there. In FIG. 3, since the parallax between the left-eye image 31 and the right-eye image 33 is large, the points of intersection of the eyes of the respective users viewing the object 32 with the left eye and the object 34 with the right eye are , Has become far away from the user. Thus, when the point where the line of sight intersects is extremely far from the user, the user cannot recognize the object 32 and the object 34 as one object, and the object 32 and the object 34 are different from each other. It looks like an object and you will see a blurry image on the left and right.

  As described above, if the parallax between the left-eye image and the right-eye image is too large, it becomes difficult for the user to recognize the moving image as a three-dimensional image. In this way, the parallax between the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye becomes large, and it is conceivable that the case where viewing of the stereoscopic video becomes difficult is caused by various factors.

  For example, the above-described case may occur when a moving image is displayed on a screen larger than a screen that is supposed to be displayed and the user views at a distance at which the normal screen is viewed. In this case, since the moving image is displayed on a screen larger than the assumed screen, the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye are enlarged respectively, and thereby the parallax becomes larger than expected, and the user It becomes difficult to recognize as a solid.

  The above case may also occur when the display screen for displaying a moving image is close to the viewing position of the user. Furthermore, the above case can also occur when the distance between the left and right eyes is small, such as when a child watches.

  The DTV 1 in the present embodiment can prevent the parallax of the stereoscopic video displayed as described above from becoming too large, and can provide a stereoscopic video that is easy for the user to view. A description of this function will be given below.

  FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the DTV 1 in this embodiment. 4, the DTV 1, the control unit 401, the reception unit 402, the moving image reception unit 403, the determination unit 404, the frame rate setting unit 405, the left and right image separation unit 406, the parallax amount detection unit 407, the image processing unit A 408, and the image processing unit B409, image arrangement unit 410, switching unit 411, display control unit 412, display unit 413, shutter control signal transmission unit 414, and OSD generation unit 415 are shown.

  The control unit 401 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and a memory, and has a function of controlling the entire DTV 1. The control unit 401 gives various instructions to the configuration in the DTV 1.

  The receiving unit 402 is a receiving module such as an infrared receiving device, for example, and has a function of receiving an infrared signal as an operation instruction from a remote controller (not shown). The remote controller detects that the button has been pressed by the user, and transmits an infrared signal based on the button that has detected the press to the DTV 1. The receiving unit 402 has a function of receiving the infrared signal and transmitting an electrical signal based on the infrared signal to the control unit 401. The control unit 401 performs various processes based on the electrical signal received from the receiving unit 402. In the present embodiment, the remote controller is illustrated as transmitting a signal to the receiving unit 402 by an infrared signal, but the present invention is not limited to this, and may be compliant with other communication standards as long as the signal can be transmitted and received. It doesn't matter.

  The moving image receiving unit 403 has a function of receiving moving image data including a two-dimensional moving image or a stereoscopic moving image. As the moving image received by the moving image receiving unit 403, for example, a moving image transmitted in a TS (Transport Stream) format, a moving image transmitted by a baseband signal, or the like can be considered. The moving image receiving unit 403 receives moving image data including metadata and moving images from a recorder or the like connected to the DTV 1 or by broadcast waves. The moving image receiving unit 403 has a function of transmitting the received moving image data to a predetermined configuration in the DTV 1. Further, the moving image receiving unit 403 has a function of decoding the received moving image.

  The determination unit 404 has a function of determining whether the moving image included in the moving image data is a two-dimensional moving image or a stereoscopic moving image. In addition, it has a function of extracting data of a display size recommended for displaying a moving image included in the moving image data. The determining unit 404 determines whether the moving image included in the moving image data is a two-dimensional moving image or a stereoscopic moving image based on the received moving image data metadata. In addition, when the metadata includes data such as a display size recommended for displaying the moving image, the metadata is extracted and transmitted to the control unit 401. The metadata at this time may be included in the TS, for example, or may be transmitted separately from the TS from the recorder connected to the DTV 1. When the determination unit 404 determines that the moving image is a two-dimensional moving image, the moving image reception unit 403 transmits the decoded moving image data to the frame rate setting unit 405. If the determination unit 404 determines that the moving image is a stereoscopic moving image, the determination unit 404 transmits the decoded moving image data to the moving image reception unit 403, the left / right image separation unit 406, and the parallax amount detection unit 407. However, when the metadata includes information such as a display size recommended for moving image display as described above, the moving image reception unit 403 does not transmit moving image data to the parallax amount detection unit 407. In the present embodiment, the determination unit 404 is exemplified as a method of determining whether the moving image data includes a two-dimensional moving image or a three-dimensional moving image, with reference to the metadata of the moving image data, but is not limited thereto. It is not a thing. For example, the determination unit 404 may detect whether the moving image has a predetermined format for stereoscopic moving image transmission based on the decoded moving image signal, and may determine based on the result. For example, in the case of side-by-side stereoscopic video transfer in which a left-eye image and a right-eye image each having a small resolution are transmitted as a single image side by side, the determination unit 404 determines the left side of the single image. A method for determining whether there is an image correlation between the half and the right half and determining whether the image is a two-dimensional moving image or a stereoscopic moving image according to this is conceivable.

  The frame rate setting unit 405 has a function of setting a frame rate for displaying the two-dimensional moving image received from the moving image receiving unit 403 on the display unit 413 according to the specifications of the display unit 413 of the DTV 1. The frame rate setting unit 405 outputs the two-dimensional moving image in which the frame rate is set and information on the frame rate to the switching unit 411.

  The left and right image separation unit 406 has a function of separating a moving image image into a left-eye image and a right-eye image when receiving a stereoscopic moving image from the moving image receiving unit 403. The left and right image separation unit 406 transmits the separated left eye image to the image processing unit A408 and the right eye image to the image processing unit B409.

  The parallax amount detection unit 407 has a function of detecting parallax between the left-eye image and the right-eye image included in the stereoscopic video received from the video receiving unit 403. The parallax amount detection unit 407 transmits information on the detected parallax amount to the control unit 401.

  Here, the control unit 401 is based on the recommended display size information of the moving image received from the moving image reception unit 403, the disparity information of the moving image detected by the disparity amount detection unit 407, or the user's remote controller operation received from the receiving unit 402. The image processing unit A 408 and the image processing unit B 409 are instructed to enlarge the image. That is, the control unit 401 determines whether or not the image processing unit A 408 and the image processing unit B 409 perform processing such as image enlargement, and when performing processing such as image enlargement, how much enlargement (enlargement) is performed. Give instructions on what to do.

  When the recommended display size information of the moving image is received from the moving image receiving unit 403, the control unit 401 enlarges the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409 when the recommended display size is smaller than a predetermined value. Instruct to do. The control unit 401 sets the enlargement processing amount according to the recommended display size when performing the enlargement processing, and sets the enlargement processing amount larger as the recommended display size is smaller. Here, the predetermined value to be compared with the display size, which is used as a reference for whether or not the control unit 401 issues an enlargement processing instruction, is determined by the display size of the display device of the DTV 1. This predetermined value is stored in a memory in the control unit 401. Further, when the control unit 401 receives the parallax information of the stereoscopic video from the parallax amount detection unit 407, when the parallax information is larger than a predetermined value, the control unit 401 performs processing such as stretching on the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409. Instruct to do. In addition, when performing the enlargement process, the control unit 401 sets the enlargement process amount according to the received parallax value, and sets the enlargement process amount larger as the parallax value increases. Here, the predetermined value to be compared with the parallax information is also determined by the display size, and the control unit 401 stores the information of the predetermined value in the memory.

  The control unit 401 also instructs the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409 to perform image enlargement processing based on the user's remote controller operation, which will be described later with reference to FIG. .

  The image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409 can perform processing such as image enlargement on each of the left eye image and the right eye image received from the left and right image separation unit 406. A processing method such as image enlargement performed by the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409 will be described later with reference to FIG. When the image processing unit A 408 and the image processing unit B 409 perform the image enlargement process, the image processing unit A 408 and the image processing unit B 409 cut out a part of the stretched image and send the cut out image to the image arrangement unit 410. The image processing unit A 408 and the image processing unit B 409 perform processing such as image enlargement based on an instruction from the control unit 401, but when the control unit 401 instructs not to perform the enlargement processing, or the control unit 401. When there is no more instruction, the image is sent to the image arrangement unit 410 without performing the enlargement process and the cutout process.

  The image arrangement unit 410 has a function of arranging and outputting the received left-eye image and right-eye image. The image arrangement unit 410 alternately arranges the received left-eye images and right-eye images, and further sets and switches the frame rate for displaying a stereoscopic video including the left-eye images and the right-eye images. Output to the unit 411. The arrangement of the left eye image and the right eye image performed by the image arrangement unit 410 will be described with reference to FIG.

  The switching unit 411 has a function as an output unit that selectively outputs a moving image signal received from the frame rate setting unit 405 or the image arrangement unit 410. The switching unit 411 outputs a 2D moving image or a stereoscopic moving image signal to the display control unit 412 at a rate indicated by the frame rate. In addition, when the stereoscopic video is output, the switching unit 411 instructs the shutter control signal transmission unit 414 of an open / close signal according to the frame rate of the stereoscopic video.

  The display control unit 412 has a function of controlling the display unit 413, and has a function of displaying this moving image on the display unit 413 based on a moving image signal input from the switching unit 411.

  In this embodiment, the display unit 413 is an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), for example, and has a function of displaying a moving image on its own display screen 2 based on control from the display control unit 412. . The display unit 413 is not limited to the LCD, and other examples of the display unit 413 include various display devices such as a PDP (Plasma Display Panel) and an organic EL (Electro-Luminescence).

  The shutter control signal transmission unit 414 transmits an open / close signal to the shutter glasses 33 based on an instruction from the switching unit 411. The transmission of the opening / closing signal may be transmitted in conformity with infrared communication, for example, or may be in conformity with other communication standards.

  The OSD generation unit 415 generates an OSD (On Screen Display) signal for displaying a UI (user interface) screen and the like under the control of the control unit 401. The OSD generation unit 415 transmits the generated signal to the display control unit 412. The display control unit 412 displays a UI image based on the OSD signal superimposed on the moving image.

  In the present embodiment, two image processing modules that perform image enlargement processing and the like are provided: an image processing unit A408 that performs image editing processing for a left-eye image and an image processing unit B410 that performs image processing for a right-eye image. It has been. As a result, the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye can be stretched in parallel, so the image processing speed is improved compared to the case where image processing is performed with one module. be able to.

  In the present embodiment, the image processing unit A 408 and the image processing unit B 409 perform processing such as image enlargement on the left eye image and the right eye image, respectively, according to instructions from the control unit 401. This process will be described in detail below.

  FIG. 5 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of a processing method such as image enlargement of a stereoscopic video in the present embodiment.

  FIG. 5A is a diagram conceptually showing an image obtained by synthesizing the left eye image 31 and the right eye image 33 input to the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409. As described with reference to FIG. 3, the parallax between the left-eye image 31 and the right-eye image 33 is too large, and it is difficult for the user to grasp this as a three-dimensional image.

  FIG. 5B is a diagram conceptually showing processing such as image enlargement performed by the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409.

  The image processing unit A408 performs a process of stretching the input left-eye image 31 in the horizontal direction, and cuts out a partial region of the stretched image. The area cut out at this time is the same size as the image 31 for the left eye before being stretched, and does not include the pixel at the right end of the stretched image. In the present embodiment, the cutout area is described as an example including an area including pixels near the left end of the stretched image (for example, including any one of pixels 1 to 10 from the left end). Do. Through these processes, the left-eye image 51 is generated. The object 52 drawn on the left eye image 51 is closer to the right side than the object 32 drawn on the left eye image 31.

  Further, the image processing unit B409 performs a process of stretching the input right-eye image 33 in the horizontal direction, and cuts out a partial region of the stretched image. This is a region that does not include the pixel at the left end of the stretched image. In the present embodiment, the region to be cut out is described as an example including a region near the right end of the stretched image (for example, including one of pixels 1 to 10 from the right end). Do. A right eye image 53 is generated by these processes. The object 54 drawn on the right eye image 53 is closer to the left side than the object 34 drawn on the right eye image 33.

  FIG. 5C is a diagram conceptually showing a combination of the lines of sight when the user views the left-eye image 51 only with the left eye and the right-eye image 53 only with the right eye. .

  As described above, in the left eye image 51 and the right eye image 53 generated by the image processing unit A 408 and the image processing unit B 409 by the enlargement and extraction processing of the left eye image 31 and the right eye image 33, the object 52 and The distance to the object 54 is getting closer, and the parallax between each image is small. For this reason, there is a point where the line of sight of the left and right eyes of the user intersects, and the user can grasp the object 55 as a solid.

  In the present embodiment, a region including the vicinity of the left end of the left eye image 31 and a region including the vicinity of the right end of the right eye image 33 are cut out, and the left eye image 51 and the right eye image 53 are output. Yes. In this case, it is possible to cope with a case where the parallax between the left-eye image 31 and the right-eye image 33 is large.

  In this embodiment, the case where the image is stretched in the horizontal direction has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, the image may be stretched without changing the aspect ratio of the image (image enlargement). Even when the image is stretched without changing the aspect ratio of the image in this way, an image having the same size as the unstretched image in the region including the vicinity of the image is cut out and output. The extending direction is not limited to the horizontal direction, but may be extended in the vertical direction of the image.

  In the present embodiment, for the sake of simplicity of explanation, what the user perceives as a three-dimensional object is shown as an object 52 or the like, but naturally other things drawn on the left-eye image 51 and the right-eye image 53 are also applicable. The user can recognize as a solid.

  In the above description, the processing procedure performed by the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409 is described as being performed in the order of the enlargement process and the cutout process. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the enlargement process is performed after performing the cutout process first. May be performed.

  In the present embodiment, since the image is stretched as a whole rather than locally, local unnaturalness does not occur in the image.

  However, in the present embodiment, the description will be made assuming that the entire image is stretched. However, for example, the image may be stretched locally.

  In addition, the DTV 1 in the present embodiment not only cuts and displays an image but also enlarges it beyond the size of the original image by the enlargement process. Therefore, unlike the case of cutting and displaying, nothing is displayed on the edge of the display screen. An unfinished area does not occur.

  Next, the process of arranging the left eye image and the right eye image performed by the image arrangement unit 410 will be described.

  FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram illustrating an example of processing for arranging images performed by the image arrangement unit 410 according to the present embodiment.

  The image arrangement unit 410 outputs the images of the image processing unit A 408 and the image processing unit B 409 arranged side by side in time series alternately. In FIG. 6, it is assumed that the left-eye image 61 is an image to be displayed after the left-eye image 51, and the right-eye image 62 is an image to be displayed after the right-eye image 53.

  At this time, the image arrangement unit 410 outputs images in the order of the left eye image 51, the right eye image 53, the left eye image 61, and the right eye image 62.

  The DTV 1 of the present embodiment displays a UI image based on the OSD signal generated by the OSD generation unit 415. This display will be described next.

  FIG. 7 is an overview diagram showing an example of a display screen of the DTV 1 when displaying a UI image in the present embodiment. FIG. 7 shows a display screen 2, a display image 71, a parallax amount adjustment display 72, a parallax amount adjustment slider 73, an age input box 74, an OK button 75, and a cancel button 76.

On the display screen 2 of the DTV 1, a display image 71 that is one of the stereoscopic moving images is displayed, and a parallax amount adjustment display 72 is further displayed on the display image 71. The parallax amount adjustment display 72 is displayed based on the OSD signal generated by the OSD generation unit 415, and the user adjusts the parallax amount between consecutive images of the stereoscopic video using the parallax amount adjustment display 72. Can do. The parallax amount adjustment display 72 includes a parallax amount adjustment slider 73, an age input box 74,
An OK button 75 and a cancel button 76 are displayed.

  The parallax adjustment slider 73 controls the parallax amount between the images of the stereoscopic video so that the slider indicated by the diagonal line moves in accordance with the operation of the left and right keys of the remote controller, and the slider moves to correspond to the position of the slider. The When the position of the slider is fixed, a moving image is displayed with a parallax amount corresponding to the position. Specifically, when the user operates the remote controller, a signal related to the operation is input to the control unit 401, and based on this signal, the control unit 401 instructs the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409 to perform image enlargement processing instructions and enlargement. The processing amount is instructed. The image processing unit A 408 and the image processing unit B 409 enlarge the image based on this instruction and cut out a part as described above. The image processed in this way is displayed on the display screen 2.

  The age input box 74 is a box in which the user can input the age of the viewer. The user can input a numerical value in the age input box 74 by using a numeric key (channel key) or the like of the remote controller. The control unit 401 has a table in its own memory that associates the value of the enlargement processing amount when the image enlargement instruction is given to the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409 with the value of the user's age. When the age of the viewer is input in the age input box 74, the enlargement processing amount is determined with reference to this table, and the image enlargement processing instruction and the enlargement processing amount instruction are given to the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409. . When the distance between both eyes is small, for example, because the viewer is a child, the parallax between the images of the stereoscopic video to be displayed becomes larger than the distance between the eyes of the viewer. It becomes difficult to capture a stereoscopic video as a solid. Therefore, when the distance between the viewer's eyes is small, it is better to reduce the parallax of the stereoscopic video, and the DTV 1 stretches the parallax between the left and right images of the stereoscopic video according to the age of the viewer. I do.

  The OK button 75 is a button that is selected when the user applies the parallax amount setting. When the user selects the OK button 75, the parallax amount adjustment display 72 is not displayed while the parallax amount is adjusted. The cancel button 76 is a button that the user selects to cancel the setting of the parallax amount. When the OK button 75 or the cancel button 76 is selected by the user, the OSD generation unit 415 stops generating and outputting the OSD signal and stops displaying the parallax amount adjustment display 72.

  Next, the process flow of the parallax amount adjustment process performed by the DTV 1 will be described.

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an example of the parallax amount adjustment processing performed by the DTV 1 in the present embodiment.

  First, the DTV 1 receives moving image data by the moving image receiving unit 403 (step S801).

  Next, the moving image receiving unit 403 decodes the moving image data, and the determination unit 404 reads the metadata of the moving image data, and determines whether or not the moving image included in the moving image data is a stereoscopic moving image (step S802). . The determination method at this time is not limited to this, and as described above, the determination unit 404 may determine whether or not the video is a stereoscopic video based on the image signal included in the video data.

  When the determination unit 404 does not determine that the video is a stereoscopic video (No in step S802), that is, when it is determined that the video is a two-dimensional video, the video reception unit 403 outputs video data to the frame rate setting unit 405. After setting the frame rate of the input moving image, the frame rate setting unit 405 outputs the moving image data and frame rate information to the switching unit 411. The switching unit 411 to which these are input outputs a moving image to the display control unit 412 based on the set frame rate, and the display control unit 412 displays the moving image on the display unit 413 (step S803).

  When the determining unit 404 determines that the moving image is a stereoscopic moving image (step S802, Yes), the determining unit 404 detects whether there is information on a recommended display size for displaying the moving image from the metadata, and this exists. This information is transmitted to the control unit 401. The moving image receiving unit 403 outputs the moving image data to the left and right image separating unit 406 and the parallax amount detecting unit 407 (if the moving image data includes information on the recommended display size, the moving image receiving unit 403 No moving image data is output to 407). The left and right image separating unit 406 to which the moving image data is input separates the left and right images from the stereoscopic moving image included in the moving image data (step S804), and the left eye image is transferred to the image processing unit A408. Is output to the image processing unit B409.

  In addition, the parallax amount detection unit 407 compares the left-eye image and the right-eye image of the input moving image, and detects how much parallax amount exists between the images (step S805). The parallax amount detection unit 407 outputs information on the detected parallax amount to the control unit 401.

  The control unit 401 receives recommended display size information or parallax amount information, and determines whether or not to perform parallax adjustment based on this information (step S806).

  When the recommended display size is larger than the predetermined value or when the parallax amount is smaller than the predetermined value, it is determined that the parallax adjustment is not performed (No in step S806), and when the recommended display size is smaller than the predetermined value or the parallax amount is the predetermined value If larger, it is determined that parallax adjustment is performed (step S806, Yes).

  When determining that the parallax adjustment is not performed (No in Step S806), the control unit 401 determines whether or not a parallax adjustment instruction is received from the user (Step S807). When the user's remote controller performs a predetermined operation, the DTV 1 displays the parallax amount adjustment display 72 and receives an operation instruction from the user based on the parallax amount adjustment display 72 (Yes in step S807), the control unit 401 performs this operation. The amount of parallax is adjusted according to the instruction.

  When the parallax amount is adjusted in step S806 or step S807 (step S806, Yes) (step S807, Yes), the control unit 401 instructs the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409 to perform the image enlargement processing and the image enlargement amount. Give instructions. Based on this instruction, the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409 perform enlargement processing on the left-eye image and the right-eye image (step S808).

  Next, the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409 cut out a partial region of the stretched image (step S809), and output the cut out image to the image arrangement unit 410.

  When a parallax adjustment instruction is not received from the user in step S807 (No in step S807), the control unit 401 instructs the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409 not to perform image enlargement processing. Upon receiving this instruction, the image processing unit A 408 and the image processing unit B 409 do not process the left eye image and the right eye image, and output them to the image arrangement unit 410.

  The image arrangement unit 410 to which images are input from the image processing unit A 408 and the image processing unit B 409 alternately arrange the input images in the left and right in time series, set the frame rate of the stereoscopic video, and then arrange the images. The group and frame rate information is output to the switching unit 411.

  The switching unit 411 to which the arranged image group (stereoscopic moving image) and frame rate information are input outputs the image group to the display control unit 412 based on the received frame rate. Receiving this input, the display control unit 412 displays a stereoscopic video on the display unit 413 (step S811).

  When step S803 or step S811 ends, a series of processing flows ends.

  In this embodiment, in order to provide a user with a stereoscopic video using a frame sequential method using the shutter glasses 2, the left-eye image and the right-eye image are alternately output. However, the present embodiment is not limited to this, and the stereoscopic video may be provided to the user by another stereoscopic video providing method. For example, a left-eye image and a right-eye image are mixed in one displayed image, and each image is shown to the left and right eyes of the user by polarization or the like to provide stereoscopic viewing. The providing method may be adopted. At this time, the DTV 1 outputs the left-eye image and the right-eye image simultaneously as one image.

  In the present embodiment, the DTV 1 detects the parallax between the left-eye image and the right-eye image included in the stereoscopic video, and determines whether to perform the enlargement process based on this parallax. When the parallax of the visual video is large, the parallax amount can be automatically adjusted.

  In this embodiment, since the DTV 1 performs the enlargement process according to the display size recommended for displaying the stereoscopic video, the DTV 1 automatically adjusts the amount of parallax according to the characteristics of the stereoscopic video. It can be carried out.

  Furthermore, since the DTV 1 controls the amount of enlargement processing according to the parallax amount of the stereoscopic video and the recommended display size of the stereoscopic video, the DTV 1 automatically controls the parallax adjustment amount.

  In the present embodiment, since the DTV 1 is provided with an interface for the user to set the parallax amount, the user can suitably set the parallax amount by himself / herself. Furthermore, since the DTV 1 provides a display for adjusting the parallax amount, the user can intuitively grasp the adjustment amount.

  In this embodiment, when the amount of parallax between the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye is too large, the case where the image is stretched to reduce the parallax is illustrated, but the present invention is not limited to this. Alternatively, the image enlargement process may be performed when the parallax between the images is too small. At this time, after the image processing unit A408 and the image processing unit B409 stretch the image, an area having the same size as the original image near the right end of the left eye image and the original image near the left end of the right eye image And an area having the same size as is cut out, and the cut out image is output. As a result, the parallax between the images increases, so that the DTV 1 can adjust the parallax amount that is too small and provide a stereoscopic video that is more suitable for viewing by the user. In this case, it is possible to prevent an area where no image is displayed on the display screen.

  The DTV 1 in this embodiment can allow the user to appropriately view a stereoscopic video without generating an area where no image is displayed on the display screen of the display device.

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The second embodiment of the present invention will be described below.

  FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an example of the internal configuration of the ODD recorder 9 in the present embodiment. 9 shows an ODD recorder 9, a control unit 901, a reception unit 902, a moving image reception unit 903, a determination unit 904, a frame rate setting unit 905, a left / right image separation unit 906, a parallax amount detection unit 907, an image processing unit A 908, an image processing unit. A part B909, an image arrangement part 910, a switching part 911, a communication part 912, a display device information detection part 913, an ODD 914, and an optical disk 915 are shown.

  In the internal configuration of the ODD recorder 9 according to the present embodiment, a configuration having the same name as that of the first embodiment has substantially the same function as that of the first embodiment. Hereinafter, a configuration that has not been described in the first embodiment and a configuration that has the same name as the first embodiment but has different functions will be described mainly.

  The ODD recorder 9 is a recorder that can store a moving image on a loaded optical disk 915 or reproduce a moving image stored on the optical disk 915. The optical disk 915 indicates, for example, a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc), a BD (Blu-ray (registered trademark) Disc), or the like.

  The communication unit 912 is a communication module compliant with, for example, the HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) standard, and has a function of communicating with a display device such as a DTV connected by an HDMI cable. In this embodiment, the communication unit 912 communicates with a DTV that is an external device, and transmits and receives various data.

  The display device information detection unit 913 passes the communication unit 912 through the communication unit 912 so as to transmit the size information of the display (display screen) of the display device to the display device (in this case, the DTV) with which the communication unit 912 is communicating. Follow the instructions. When the display device information detection unit 913 acquires display size information from the DTV via the communication unit 912, the display device information detection unit 913 has a function of transmitting this information to the control unit 901.

  In the first embodiment, the control unit 401 stores the display size information of the DTV 1 in its own memory, and based on this information, the recommended display size information of the moving image, and the parallax information of the moving image, the image enlargement process Whether or not to perform the process is further determined. The control unit 901 in this embodiment receives the size information of the display of the DTV connected to the ODD recorder 9 from the display device information detection unit 913, and based on this information, the recommended display size information of the moving image, and the parallax information of the moving image, Whether or not to perform image enlargement processing is determined, and further the amount of enlargement processing is determined. At this time, the control unit 901 may store display size information of the connected device in a memory.

  The ODD 914 is an optical disk drive (Optical Disk Drive) having a function of reading data from the optical disk 915 and writing data to the optical disk 915. The ODD 914 has a function of outputting the moving image data read from the optical disc 915 to the moving image receiving unit 903.

  In the present embodiment, the ODD recorder 9 is shown as an example of the electronic device. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a recorder such as an HDD (Hard Disk Drive) recorder is also considered as an example of the electronic device.

  The ODD recorder 9 of the present embodiment can receive information on an externally connected display device and can adjust the amount of parallax according to this information.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments as they are, and can be embodied by modifying the constituent elements without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. In addition, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of components disclosed in the embodiment. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, constituent elements over different embodiments may be appropriately combined.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... DTV, 2 ... Display screen, 3 ... Shutter glasses, 4 ... Movie display system, 21 ... Image for left eye, 22 ... Object, 23 ... Image for right eye, 24 ... Object, 25 ... Object, 31 ... Left eye 32, object, 33 ... right eye image, 34 ... object, 401 ... control unit, 402 ... receiving unit, 403 ... moving image receiving unit, 404 ... discriminating unit, 405 ... frame rate setting unit, 406 ... left and right image Separation unit, 407 ... Parallax amount detection unit, 408 ... Image processing unit A, 409 ... Image processing unit B, 410 ... Image arrangement unit, 411 ... Switching unit, 412 ... Display control unit, 413 ... Display unit, 414 ... Shutter control Signal transmission unit, 415 ... OSD generation unit, 51 ... left eye image, 52 ... object, 53 ... right eye image, 54 ... object, 55 ... object, 61 ... left eye image, 62 ... right eye image, 71 ... display image, 72 ... parallax amount adjustment display, 73 ... Difference adjustment slider, 74 ... age input box, 75 ... OK button, 76 ... cancel button, 9 ... ODD recorder, 901 ... control unit, 902 ... receiving unit, 903 ... moving image receiving unit, 904 ... discriminating unit, 905 ... frame Rate setting unit, 906 ... left and right image separation unit, 907 ... parallax amount detection unit, 908 ... image processing unit A, 909 ... image processing unit B, 910 ... image arrangement unit, 911 ... switching unit, 912 ... communication unit, 913 ... Display device information detection unit, 914... ODD, 915.

Claims (6)

Parallax amount adjusting means for allowing a user to adjust the parallax amount between the first image and the second image;
Stretching means for stretching the first image and the second image in accordance with adjustment of the amount of parallax of the parallax amount adjusting means;
Output means for outputting data of a third image corresponding to a first region of the stretched first image and a fourth image corresponding to a second region of the stretched second image; Electronic equipment provided. The third image corresponds to a region that does not include at least either the right side or the left side of the stretched first image,
2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the fourth image corresponds to a region that does not include at least either the right side or the left side of the stretched second image. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the output unit outputs the data of the third image and the fourth image continuously or simultaneously. The electronic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the stretching unit stretches the first image and the second image at least in a horizontal direction. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising receiving means for receiving the first image and the second image from a broadcast wave or a storage medium. Adjusting the amount of parallax between the first image and the second image;
In response to the adjustment of the parallax amount, the first image and the second image are stretched,
An image output method for outputting data of a third image corresponding to a first region of the stretched first image and a fourth image corresponding to a second region of the stretched second image.

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