APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING A STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE STREAM
First Claim
1. A system for processing a compressed image stream of a stereoscopic image stream, said compressed image stream having a plurality of frames in a first format, each frame consisting of a merged image comprising pixels sampled from a left image and pixels sampled from a right image, comprising:
- a receiver for receiving said compressed image stream;
a decompressing module in communication with said receiver for decompressing said compressed image stream;
a frame buffer connected to said decompressing module for receiving and storing frames of said merged image of said decompressed image stream;
a serializing unit for reading pixels of said frames stored in said frame buffer and outputting a pixel stream comprising pixels of a left frame and pixels of a right frame;
a stereoscopic image processor receiving said pixel stream, buffering said pixels, performing interpolation in order to reconstruct pixels of said left and right images and outputting a reconstructed left pixel stream and a reconstructed right pixel stream, said reconstructed streams having a format different from said first format;
a display signal generator receiving said stereoscopic pixel stream to provide an output display signal.
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Abstract
A system is provided for processing a compressed image stream of a stereoscopic image stream, the compressed image stream having a plurality of frames in a first format, each frame consisting of a merged image comprising pixels sampled from a left image and pixels sampled from a right image. A receiver receives the compressed image stream and a decompressing module in communication with the receiver decompresses the compressed image stream. The left and right images of the decompressed image stream are stored in a frame buffer. A serializing unit reads pixels of the frames stored in the frame buffer and outputs a pixel stream comprising pixels of a left frame and pixels of a right frame. A stereoscopic image processor receives the pixel stream, buffers the pixels, performs interpolation in order to reconstruct pixels of the left and right images and outputs a reconstructed left pixel stream and a reconstructed right pixel stream, the reconstructed streams having a format different from the first format. A display signal generator receives the stereoscopic pixel stream to provide an output display signal.
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16 Claims
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1. A system for processing a compressed image stream of a stereoscopic image stream, said compressed image stream having a plurality of frames in a first format, each frame consisting of a merged image comprising pixels sampled from a left image and pixels sampled from a right image, comprising:
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a receiver for receiving said compressed image stream; a decompressing module in communication with said receiver for decompressing said compressed image stream; a frame buffer connected to said decompressing module for receiving and storing frames of said merged image of said decompressed image stream; a serializing unit for reading pixels of said frames stored in said frame buffer and outputting a pixel stream comprising pixels of a left frame and pixels of a right frame; a stereoscopic image processor receiving said pixel stream, buffering said pixels, performing interpolation in order to reconstruct pixels of said left and right images and outputting a reconstructed left pixel stream and a reconstructed right pixel stream, said reconstructed streams having a format different from said first format; a display signal generator receiving said stereoscopic pixel stream to provide an output display signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for transmitting stereoscopic left and right image frames, a left image frame and a right image frame forming a pair, comprising:
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for each of said left and right image frames, sampling said image frame such that said sampled image frame has half a number of original pixels forming a staggered quincunx pattern, wherein said original pixels surround missing pixels; for each left and right image frame pair, creating a new frame by juxtaposing a sampled image frame of a left image and a sampled image frame of a right image; transmitting said new frames in an image stream; receiving said image stream of new frames; reconstructing said stereoscopic left and right image frames by interpolating missing pixel values for each image frame, using only said original pixels, wherein said interpolating comprises, for each missing pixel; calculating an edge-dependent weighting factor using said original pixel values including values of original pixels other than said original pixels immediately surrounding said missing pixel; and calculating an interpolated value for said missing pixel using original pixels and said weighting factor. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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Specification