CODING DEVICE FOR 3D VIDEO SIGNALS

• US 20110122230A1
• Filed: 07/21/2009
• Published: 05/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Boisson, Guillaume, Kerbiriou, Paul, Lopez, Patrick
• Application Number:
  US12/737,442
• Publication Number:
  US 20110122230A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/47
• 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 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

The device comprises the means to generate a stream structured on several levels:

• • a level 0 comprising two layers, a base layer containing the video data of the right image and a level 0 enhancement layer containing the video data of the left image, or conversely,
  • a level 1 comprising two enhancement layers, a first level 1 enhancement layer containing a depth map relating to the image of the base layer, a second level 1 enhancement layer containing a depth map relating to the level 0 enhancement layer image,
  • a level 2 comprising a level 2 enhancement layer containing occlusion data relating to the base layer image.

Applications for coding 3D data relating to 3D digital cinema, 3D DVD, 3D TV, etc.

Claims

1. Coding device intended to exploit the data from different 3D production means, data relating to a right image and a left image, data relating to depth maps associated with right images and/or left images and/or data relating to occlusion layers, comprising means to generate a stream structured on several levels:

a level 0 comprising two layers, a base layer containing the video data of the right image and a level 0 enhancement layer containing the video data of the left image, or conversely,

a level 1 comprising two enhancement layers, a first level 1 enhancement layer containing a depth map relating to the image of the base layer, a second level 1 enhancement layer containing a depth map relating to the level 0 enhancement layer image,

a level 2 comprising a level 2 enhancement layer containing occlusion data relating to the base layer image.

2. Device according to claim 1, wherein the data relating to level 0, level 1 or level 2 comes from 3D synthesis image generation means and/or the 3D data means of production from:

2D data from 2D cameras and/or 2D video content and/or

data from stereo cameras and/or multiview cameras

3. Device according to claim 1, wherein the 3D data production means use, for the calculation of data relating to level 1, specific means for depth information acquisition and/or means for depth map calculation from data coming from stereo cameras and/or multiview cameras

4. Device according to claim 1, wherein the 3D data production means use, for the calculation of data relating to level 2, occlusion map calculation means from data coming from depth information acquisition means, from stereo cameras and/or multiview cameras.

5. Decoding device of 3D data from a stream for its display on a screen, structured on several levels:

a level zero comprising two layers, a base layer containing the video data of the right image and a level zero enhancement layer containing the video data of the left image, or conversely,

a level 1 comprising two enhancement layers, a first level 1 enhancement layer containing a depth map relating to the image of the base layer, a second level 1 enhancement layer containing a depth map relating to the level 0 enhancement layer image,

a level 2 comprising a level 2 enhancement layer containing occlusion data relating to the base layer image,

for their display on a display device, comprising a 3D display adaptation circuit using the data of one or more data stream layers received to render them compatible with the display device.

6. Device according to claim 5, wherein the 3D display adaptation circuit uses:

level 0 layers when the display is on a 3D cinema screen, on a 2 view stereoscopic screen requiring the use of glasses, or on a 2 view autostereoscopic screen,

the base layer and the first level 1 enhancement layer when the display is on a Philips “

2D+z”

type screen,

all of the level 0 and level 1 layers when the display is on an MVD type autostereoscopic 3DTV,

the base layer, the first enhancement layer of level 1 and of level 2 when the display is on a LDV type screen.

7. Video data transport stream, wherein the stream syntax differentiates the data layers according to the following structure:

a layer of level 0 composed of two layers, one base layer containing the video data of the right image and an enhancement layer containing video data of the left image, or conversely,

an enhancement layer of level 1 itself composed of two enhancement layers, a first level 1 enhancement layer containing a depth map relating to the image of the base layer, a second level 1 enhancement layer containing the depth map relating to the image of the level 0 enhancement layer,

a level 2 enhancement layer containing occlusion data relating to the base layer image.