METHOD FOR PROCESSING 3 DIMENSIONAL IMAGE AND APPARATUS THEREOF

• US 20090135090A1
• Filed: 05/22/2008
• Published: 05/28/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Young-chan
• Application Number:
  US12/125,130
• Publication Number:
  US 20090135090A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/6
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/023 Display panel composed of stacked panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/0606 Manual adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/003 to produce spatial visual effects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/122 Improving the 3D impression of stereoscopic images by modifying image signal contents, e.g. by filtering or adding monoscopic depth cues H04N13/128 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/395 with depth sampling, i.e. the volume being constructed from a stack or sequence of 2D image planes

Abstract

A method and apparatus for processing a 3-dimensional (3D) are provided. The image apparatus includes a plurality of displays, an image processing unit which processes the 3D image by varying at least one of a resolution, clearness and position of the 3D image, and a control unit which controls the image processing unit to output the processed 3D image to at least one of the plurality of displays so that a 3-dimensional effect of the 3D image is varied.

Claims

1. An image apparatus for processing a 3-dimensional (3D) image, the image apparatus comprising:

a plurality of displays;

an image processing unit which processes a 3D image by varying at least one of a resolution, clearness and position of the 3D image; and

a control unit which controls the image processing unit to output the processed 3D image to at least one of the plurality of displays so that a 3-dimensional effect of the 3D image is varied.

2. The image apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an image separating unit which separates a 3D image into a plurality of images.

3. The image apparatus of claim 2, wherein the plurality of images comprises a front image and a back image.

4. The image apparatus of claim 3, wherein the plurality of displays comprises a front display and a back display.

5. The image apparatus of claim 4, wherein the front image is displayed on the front display and the back image is displayed on the back display.

6. The image apparatus of claim 3, wherein the control unit controls the image processing unit to vary at least one of a difference of resolutions, a difference of clearness, and a difference of positions between the front image and the back image displayed on the plurality of displays.

7. The image apparatus of claim 6, wherein the control unit controls the image processing unit to increase at least one of the difference of resolutions and the difference of clearness between the front image and the back image displayed on the plurality of displays.

8. The image apparatus of claim 6, wherein the control unit controls the image processing unit to decrease at least one of the difference of resolutions and the difference of clearness between the front image and the back image displayed on the plurality of displays.

9. The image apparatus of claim 6, wherein the control unit controls the image processing unit to cause at least one of the front image and the back image displayed on the plurality of displays to move rightward, leftward, upward or downward.

10. The image apparatus of claim 1, wherein the plurality of displays display a menu which provides information for the adjustment of at least one of the resolution, clearness and position of the 3D image.

11. A method for processing a 3-dimensional (3D) image, for realizing the 3D image by displaying a 2D image on a plurality of displays, the method comprising:

processing the 3D image by varying at least one of a resolution, clearness and position of the 3D image; and

displaying the 3D image with a varied 3-dimensional effect, by outputting the processed 3D image to at least one of the plurality of displays.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the 3D image is split into a front image and a back image, and the processing comprises processing at least one of the front image and the back image to vary at least one of a difference of resolutions, a difference of clearness, and a difference of positions between the front image and the back image displayed on the plurality of displays.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the processing comprises processing at least one of the front image and the back image to increase at least one of the difference of resolutions and the difference o f clearness between the front image and the back image displayed on the plurality of displays.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the processing comprises processing at least one of the front image and the back image to decrease at least one of the difference of resolutions and the difference of clearness between the front image and the back image displayed on the plurality of displays.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the processing comprises processing at least one of the front image and the back image to cause the at least one of the front image and the back image displayed on the plurality of displays to move rightward, leftward, upward or downward.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying a menu which provides information for the adjustment of at least one of the resolution, clearness and position of the 3D image.

17. An image apparatus for processing a 3-dimensional (3D) image, the image apparatus comprising:

a plurality of displays; and

an image processing unit which processes image by varying at least one of a position, clearness and resolution of the image and thereby varying a 3-dimensional effect of the 3D image, and which outputs the processed image to at least one of the plurality of displays,

wherein the plurality of displays comprise,

a first display arranged closer to a viewer and a second display arranged in back of the first display,

and wherein the image processing unit comprises,

a first image processor which processes the image and outputs the processed image to the first display, and a second image processor which processes the image and outputs the processed image to the second display.

18. The image apparatus of claim 17, wherein a difference of resolutions and a difference of clearness of the 3D image is increased by one of the first image processor increasing at least one of the resolution and clearness of the image, or the second image processor decreasing at least one of the resolution and clearness of the image.

19. The image apparatus of claim 17, wherein a difference of resolutions and a difference of clearness of the 3D image is decreased by one of the first image processor decreasing at least one of the resolution and clearness of the image, or the second image processor increasing at least one of the resolution and clearness of the image.

20. The image apparatus of claim 17, wherein at least one of the first and second image processors moves the position of the image upward, downward, leftward, or rightward.

21. The image apparatus of claim 17, wherein the plurality of displays display a menu provided to change at least one of the position, clearness and resolution of the image.

22. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for activating a method for processing a 3-dimensional (3D) image on the computer, the method realizing the 3D image by displaying a 2D image on a plurality of displays, the method comprising:

processing the 2D image by varying at least one of a resolution, clearness and position of the 2D image; and

displaying the 3D image with a varied 3-dimensional effect, by outputting the processed 2D image to at least one of the plurality of displays.