APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAY

• US 20140063005A1
• Filed: 09/03/2013
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: AHN, Won-seok, HAN, Seung-hoon
• Granted Patent: US 9,262,858 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/10 Geometric effects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/261 with monoscopic-to-stereoscopic image conversion

Abstract

Display apparatus and method are provided. The display apparatus may include a receiver for receiving an image; a grouper for analyzing the received image and grouping a plurality of frames of the received image based on the analysis; a depth allocator for determining at least two key frames from a plurality of frames grouped into at least one group, and allocating a depth per object in the determined key frames; and an image generator for generating a 3D image corresponding to other frames excluding the key frames based on a depth value allocated to the key frames. Hence, the display apparatus can allocate the depth value of a higher quality to the object in the frames of the received image.

Claims

1. A display apparatus comprising:

a receiver to receive an image;

a grouper to analyze the received image and to group a plurality of frames of the received image based on the analysis into at least one group;

a depth allocator to determine at least two key frames from the plurality of frames of the at least one group, and to allocate a depth value per object in the determined key frames; and

an image generator to generate a 3D image corresponding to other frames excluding the key frames based on the depth value allocated to the key frames using at least one processor.

2. The display apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

an image analyzer to detect motion information of an object in the frames grouped into the at least one group,

wherein the image generator generates the 3D image corresponding to the other frames excluding the key frames based on the detected motion information and the depth value allocated to the key frames.

3. The display apparatus of claim 2, wherein the image generator comprises:

a position determiner to determine an object position in the other frames based on the detected motion information;

a frame generator to estimate a depth value of the positioned object based on the depth value allocated to the key frames, and to generate the 3D image frame corresponding to the other frames by allocating the estimated depth value to the positioned object; and

a 3D image generator to generate left-eye and right-eye images for the generated 3D image frame.

4. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein, when the object in the key frames is the same as the object in the other frames excluding the key frames, the image generator generates the 3D image by allocating the same depth value as the object of the key frames to the object in the other frames.

5. The display apparatus of claim 1, wherein the depth allocator determines the number of the key frames according to an algorithm type of the image generator for generating the 3D image corresponding to the other frames excluding the key frames.

6. The display apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a scaler for scaling the at least two determined key frames to a preset size.

7. The display apparatus of claim 6, wherein the scaler determines the size according to the algorithm type of the image generator for generating the 3D image corresponding to the other frames excluding the key frames.

8. The display apparatus of claim 2, further comprising:

a controller to adjust the estimated depth value based on brightness information of the object of the other frames.

9. A display method for converting an input 2D image to a 3D image in a display apparatus, comprising:

receiving an image;

analyzing the received image and grouping a plurality of frames of the received image based on the analysis;

determining at least two key frames from a plurality of frames grouped into at least one group, and allocating a depth value per object in the determined key frames; and

generating a 3D image corresponding to other frames excluding the key frames based on the depth value allocated to the key frames using at least one processor.

10. The display method of claim 9, further comprising:

detecting motion information of an object in the frames grouped into the at least one group,

wherein the generating of the 3D image generates the 3D image corresponding to the other frames excluding the key frames based on the detected motion information and the depth value allocated to the key frames.

11. The display method of claim 10, wherein the generating of the 3D image comprises:

determining an object position in the other frames based on the detected motion information;

estimating a depth value of the positioned object based on the depth value allocated to the key frames;

generating the 3D image frame corresponding to the other frames by allocating the estimated depth value to the positioned object; and

generating left-eye and right-eye images for the generated 3D image frame.

12. The display method of claim 9, wherein, when the object in the key frames is the same as the object in the other frames excluding the key frames, the generating of the 3D image generates the 3D image by allocating the same depth value as the object of the key frames to the object in the other frames.

13. The display method of claim 9, wherein the allocating of the depth determines the number of the key frames according to an algorithm type for generating the 3D image corresponding to the other frames excluding the key frames.

14. The display method of claim 9, further comprising:

scaling the at least two determined key frames to a preset size.

15. The display method of claim 14, wherein the scaling determines the size according to the algorithm type for generating the 3D image corresponding to the other frames excluding the key frames.

16. The display method of claim 10, wherein the generating of the 3D image adjusts the estimated depth value based on brightness information of the object of the other frames.

17. At least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer readable instructions that control at least one processor to implement the method of claim 9.