Abstract:
Disclosed herein are a 3D image acquisition apparatus and an image processing method using the apparatus, which combine an infrared sensor-based camera with a binocular camera, and simultaneously perform zoom-in (close-up) photographing and zoom-out photographing while processing depth-based 3D images. The proposed 3D image acquisition apparatus includes photographing unit for capturing binocular images via a plurality of cameras and capturing an RGB image and a depth image based on an infrared sensor, and image acquisition unit for correcting at least one pair of images among the binocular images and the RGB image, based on whether to use the depth image captured by the photographing unit, and then acquiring images to be provided to a user.