Being the image coding equipment which forms the image data which visualizes stereoscopic vision the image coding equipment

摘要

In a system for visualizing a stereoscopic image by displaying separate video images for the left and right eyes, sub-picture data (GRD) is created for the left eye and displayed superimposed on left-eye video data (VDD) as a left-eye sub-picture without change. The right-eye sub-picture (106) is displayed by shifting the horizontal positions at which the sub-picture data created for the left eye is displayed by prescribed widths. For example, the sub picture may include a plurality of objects (GRD-1, GRD-2,..., GRD-N); shift widths (108, 110) of the horizontal positions of the left and right ends of the objects are individually set and stored in the sub-picture data for displaying the objects for the right eye. A sub-picture superimposed on a stereoscopic video image can thereby be rendered in the depth direction, and the data size of the sub-picture and the amount of computation required for its display can be reduced.