DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING THE POSITION OF THE FOCAL PLANE IN A STEREOSCOPIC SCENE

The present invention concerns the field of stereoscopic vision systems and more particularly the management of the position of the focal plane in a stereoscopic scene. The invention aims to propose a method for managing the focal plane within a stereoscopic image or a sequence of stereoscopic images. A translation of the right and left images is effected in order to place the focal plane in front of the scene viewed. Advantageously, the depth of the major objects of the scene is estimated by a division of the images into a plurality of zones and estimation of the depth of each of the zones. The depth of the focal plane is then calculated so that most of the scene is behind the focal plane.