COMBINED EXCHANGE OF IMAGE AND RELATED DATA

• US 20100158351A1
• Filed: 06/19/2006
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Theune, Patric, De Jong, Pieter Wilhelmus Theodorus, Van Der Pot, Mauritius Helenus Johannes, Wouters, Johannes Hubertina Petrus
• Granted Patent: US 8,879,823 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/154
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/128 Adjusting depth or disparity
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/161 Encoding, multiplexing or demultiplexing different image signal components for multi-view video sequence encoding H04N19/597
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/178 Metadata, e.g. disparity information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/194 Transmission of image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2213/003 Aspects relating to the "2D+depth" image format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2213/005 Aspects relating to the "3D+depth" image format

Abstract

A method of combined exchange of image data and further data being related to the image data, the image data being represented by a first two-dimensional matrix of image data elements and the further data being represented by a second two-dimensional matrix of further data elements is disclosed. The method comprises combining the first two-dimensional matrix and the second two-dimensional matrix into a combined two-dimensional matrix of data elements.

Claims

1. A method of combined exchange of image data and further data being related to the image data, the image data being represented by a first two-dimensional matrix of image data elements and the further data being represented by a second two-dimensional matrix of further data elements, the method comprising combining the first two-dimensional matrix and the second two-dimensional matrix into a combined two-dimensional matrix of data elements.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, whereby the further data is depth related data.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1 or 2, whereby the further data is further image data.

7. A method as claimed in any of the claims 1-5, whereby the rows of the combined two-dimensional matrix are filled by interleaving rows of the matrices of the set of the two-dimensional matrices, comprising the first, the second, the third and the fourth two-dimensional matrix.

8. A method as claimed in claim 7, whereby a first one of the rows of the combined two-dimensional matrix comprises image data elements of the first row of the first two-dimensional matrix and further data elements of the first row of the second two-dimensional matrix.

4. A method as claimed in any of the claims above, further comprising combining second image data being represented by a third two-dimensional matrix into the combined two-dimensional matrix.

5. A method as claimed in any of the claims above, further comprising combining second further data being represented by a fourth two-dimensional matrix into the combined two-dimensional matrix.

6. A method as claimed in claim 5, whereby the combined two-dimensional matrix is created by putting two matrices of the set of the two-dimensional matrices, comprising the first, the second, the third and the fourth two-dimensional matrix adjacent to each other in horizontal direction and two of the set of the two-dimensional matrices adjacent to each other in vertical direction.

9. A method as claimed in any of the claims above, comprising writing meta-data into the combined two-dimensional matrix.

10. A method of combined exchange of image data and further data being related to the image data, the image data being represented by a first two-dimensional matrix of image data elements and the further data being represented by a second two-dimensional matrix of further data elements, the method comprising extracting the first two-dimensional matrix and the second two-dimensional matrix from a combined two-dimensional matrix of data elements.

11. A transmitting unit for combined exchange of image data and further data being related to the image data, the image data being represented by a first two-dimensional matrix of image data elements and the further data being represented by a second two-dimensional matrix of further data elements, the transmitting unit comprising combining means for combining the first two-dimensional matrix and the second two-dimensional matrix into a combined two-dimensional matrix of data elements.

13. An image processing apparatus comprising the transmitting unit as claimed in claim 11.

12. A receiving unit for combined exchange of image data and further data being related to the image data, the image data being represented by a first two-dimensional matrix of image data elements and the further data being represented by a second two-dimensional matrix of further data elements, the receiving unit comprising extracting means for extracting the first two-dimensional matrix and the second two-dimensional matrix from a combined two-dimensional matrix of data elements.

14. An image processing apparatus comprising the receiving unit as claimed in claim 12.

15. An image processing apparatus as claimed in claim 14, comprising a display device for displaying images being rendered on basis of the combined two-dimensional matrix.