PLAYBACK DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO PLAYBACK

• US 20110080462A1
• Filed: 09/27/2010
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: LEICHSENRING, Germano, YAMAJI, Osamu
• Application Number:
  US12/891,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20110080462A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/139 Format conversion, e.g. of frame-rate or size
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/158 Switching image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/183 On-screen display [OSD] information, e.g. subtitles or menus

Abstract

Inconsistency between a left-view video image and a right-view video image possibly occurs in a playback device having a function of switching between a monoscopic playback mode for monoscopically playing back video images and a stereoscopic playback mode for stereoscopically playing back video images. The present invention aims to prevent such inconsistency when switching from the monoscopic playback mode to the stereoscopic playback mode. Specifically, the present invention prevents the inconsistency by invalidating a rendering request which is Graphics#drawImage, copying a content stored in the left-view graphics plane to a right-view graphics plane, switching a graphics plane setting after the copying, and then removing prohibition of a rendering request which is StereoGraphics#drawImage.

Claims

1. A playback device, comprising:

a platform unit operable to activate and execute a bytecode application, the bytecode application issuing a 2D graphics rendering request and a 3D graphics rendering request; and

a pair of a left-view graphics plane and a right-view graphics plane that are used according to a current plane setting, the plane setting being one of;

a one-plane setting with which only the left-view graphics plane is used at a time of monoscopic playback; and

a two-plane setting with which the pair is used at a time of stereoscopic playback, wherein

the platform unit includes a rendering unit operable to;

switch between the one-plane setting and the two-plane setting;

render graphics on the left-view graphics plane in response to the 2D graphics rendering request when the current plane setting is the one-plane setting; and

render graphics on the pair in response to the 3D graphics rendering request when the current plane setting is the two-plane setting, and

the rendering unit switches from the one-plane setting to the two-plane setting by;

invalidating a newly-issued 2D graphics rendering request;

copying graphics stored in the left-view graphics plane to the right-view graphics plane; and

accepting the 3D graphics rendering request after the copying.

2. The playback device of claim 1, further comprising:

a decoder operable to decode a stereoscopic video stream stored on a recording medium to obtain left-view picture data and right-view picture data;

a left-view video plane operable to store therein the left-view picture data;

a right-view video plane operable to store therein the right-view picture data;

a left-view composition unit operable to composite the graphics stored in the left-view graphics plane with the left-view picture data; and

a right-view composition unit operable to composite one of the graphics stored in the left-view graphics plane and graphics stored in the right-view graphics plane with the right-view picture data, wherein

the composition unit starts to composite the graphics stored in the right-view graphics plane with the right-view picture data after the rendering unit has copied the graphics stored in the left-view graphics plane to the right-view graphics plane, and

the rendering unit performs the acceptance of the 3D graphics rendering request after the composition unit has composited the graphics stored in the right-view graphics plane with the right-view picture data.

3. The playback device of claim 2, wherein

the rendering unit switches from the two-plane setting to the one-plane setting after:

the rendering unit invalidates the 3D graphics rendering request;

the composition unit composites the graphics stored in the left-view graphics plane with the left-view picture data; and

the rendering unit accepts the 2D graphics rendering request from the bytecode application after the composition unit has composited the graphics stored in the left-view graphics plane with the right-view picture data.

4. The playback device of claim 3, wherein

the rendering unit switches between the one-plane setting and the two-plane setting in response to an issuance of a plane setting request from the bytecode application, and

the newly-issued 2D graphics rendering request to be invalidated follows the plane setting request.

5. The playback device of claim 4, wherein

the plane setting request is code for calling an API for plane setting,

an argument in the code for calling the API for the plane setting specifies one of the one-plane setting and the two-plane setting,

the 2D graphics rendering request is code for calling an API for rendering 2D graphics, and

the rendering unit performs the invalidation of the 2D graphics rendering request by an exceptional operation of ending the code for calling the API for rendering the 2D graphics that follows the code for calling the API of the plane setting.

6. The playback device of claim 5, wherein

the platform unit causes the bytecode application and the rendering unit to perform multi-thread processing,

the 2D graphics rendering request and the plane setting request are made by thread-to-thread transfer of the code pieces for calling the APIs between the bytecode application and the rendering unit, and

the rendering unit performs the invalidation of the 2D graphics rendering request by deleting the 2D graphics rendering request during the thread-to-thread transfer.

7. The playback device of claim 5, wherein

the API for rendering the 2D graphics is java.awt.Graphics#drawImage API, and

the API for the plane setting is a HAVi screen configuration setting in a HAVi graphics device.

8. The playback device of claim 3, wherein

the rendering unit includes a left/right plane rendering module operable to render, exclusively in a 3D playback mode, the graphics simultaneously in each of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane,

the rendering unit performs the acceptance of the 3D graphics rendering request by starting the left/right plane rendering module, and

the rendering unit performs the invalidation of the 3D graphics rendering request by ending the left/right plane rendering module.

9. The playback device of claim 1, wherein

a recording medium has a plurality of contents recorded thereon,

when specific content is selected as a current playback target, the platform unit activates and executes the bytecode application according to an application management table associated with the current playback target, and

the current plane setting is determined according to plane setting information contained in an operation mode object at a time of start of playback of a content.

10. The playback device of claim 9, wherein

the plane setting information includes a resolution code, and

the resolution code defines a number of horizontal pixels and a number of vertical pixels.

11. An integrated circuit that can be mounted on a playback device comprising a pair of a left-view graphics plane and a right-view graphics plane that are used according to a current plane setting, the plane setting being one of:

a one-plane setting with which only the left-view graphics plane is used at a time of monoscopic playback; and

a two-plane setting with which the pair is used at a time of stereoscopic playback, the integrated circuit comprising,

a platform unit operable to activate and execute a bytecode application, the bytecode application issuing a 2D graphics rendering request and a 3D graphics rendering request, wherein

the platform unit includes a rendering unit operable to;

switch between the one-plane setting and the two-plane setting;

render graphics on the left-view graphics plane in response to the 2D graphics rendering request when the current plane setting is the one-plane setting; and

render graphics on the pair in response to the 3D graphics rendering request when the current plane setting is the two-plane setting, and

the rendering unit switches from the one-plane setting to the two-plane setting by;

invalidating a newly-issued 2D graphics rendering request;

copying graphics stored in the left-view graphics plane to the right-view graphics plane; and

accepting the 3D graphics rendering request after the copying.

12. A playback method that is used in a computer that includes:

a platform unit that activates and executes a bytecode application, the bytecode application issuing a 2D graphics rendering request and a 3D graphics rendering request; and

a pair of a left-view graphics plane and a right-view graphics plane that are used according to a current plane setting, the plane setting being one of;

a one-plane setting with which only the left-view graphics plane is used at a time of monoscopic playback; and

a two-plane setting with which the pair is used at a time of stereoscopic playback, wherein

when the bytecode application issues a request for switching from the one-plane setting to the two-plane setting, a newly-issued 2D graphics rendering request is invalidated;

graphics stored in the left-view graphics plane is copied to the right-view graphics plane; and

the 3D graphics rendering request is accepted after the copying.

13. A program that operates on a computer that includes:

a platform unit that activates and executes a bytecode application, the bytecode application issuing a 2D graphics rendering request and a 3D graphics rendering request; and

a pair of a left-view graphics plane and a right-view graphics plane that are used according to a current plane setting, the plane setting being one of;

a one-plane setting with which only the left-view graphics plane is used at a time of monoscopic playback; and

a two-plane setting with which the pair is used at a time of stereoscopic playback, wherein

when the bytecode application issues a request for switching from the one-plane setting to the two-plane setting, the program causes the computer to;

invalidate a newly-issued 2D graphics rendering request;

copy graphics stored in the left-view graphics plane to the right-view graphics plane; and

accept the 3D graphics rendering request after the copying.

14. A computer readable recording medium having recorded thereon the program of claim 13.