System for Displaying Stereoscopic Images

• US 20130201304A1
• Filed: 01/29/2013
• Published: 08/08/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Leica Microsystems (Schweiz) AG
• Original Assignee: Leica Microsystems (Schweiz) AG
• Inventors: Sander, Ulrich
• Application Number:
  US13/752,608
• Publication Number:
  US 20130201304A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/51
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 21/22 Stereoscopic arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/261 with monoscopic-to-stereoscopic image conversion

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system for displaying stereoscopic microscope images, including a display screen (130) and a computer device (120) for computing or providing stereoscopic images from monoscopic images. The computer device (120) has an evaluator configured to evaluate the stereoscopic perceptibility of the computed or provided stereoscopic images and, in case that it is determined that at least one region of a stereoscopic image cannot be stereoscopically perceived, for replacing the computed or provided stereoscopic image with a monoscopic image in this region.

Claims

1. A system for displaying stereoscopic microscope images, comprising:

a display screen (130); and

a computer device (120) configured to compute or provide a stereoscopic image from monoscopic images, the computer device (120) including an evaluator configured to evaluate stereoscopic perceptibility of the computed or provided stereoscopic image;

wherein the evaluator is configured to replace at least one region of the computed or provided stereoscopic image with a replacement monoscopic image if the evaluator determines that the at least one region of the computed or provided stereoscopic image cannot be stereoscopically perceived.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the evaluator is configured to determine whether a parallax of the computed or provided stereoscopic image exceeds a threshold that is associated with stereoscopic perceptibility.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the evaluator is configured to replace the stereoscopic image with one of the monoscopic images or with a composite monoscopic image computed from the monoscopic images.

4. A method for displaying stereoscopic microscope images on a display screen (130), comprising:

computing or providing a stereoscopic image with a computer device (120) based on monoscopic images;

evaluating stereoscopic perceptibility of the computed or provided stereoscopic image by the computer device (120);

determining whether at least one region of the computed or provided stereoscopic image cannot be stereoscopically perceived; and

replacing the at least one region of the computed or provided stereoscopic image with a replacement monoscopic image.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein determining whether the at least one region of the computed or provided stereoscopic image cannot be stereoscopically perceived includes determining whether a parallax of the computed or provided stereoscopic image exceeds a threshold that is associated with stereoscopic perceptibility.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the replacement monoscopic image is one of the monoscopic images or a composite monoscopic image computed from the monoscopic images.