EQUIDISTANT STEREO LENS SHADER

• US 20160007014A1
• Filed: 03/17/2014
• Published: 01/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rubicon Group Holding Limited
• Original Assignee: Rubicon Group Holding Limited
• Inventors: HENDERSHOT, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US14/775,728
• Publication Number:
  US 20160007014A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/18 by simultaneous viewing
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 37/00 Panoramic or wide-screen photography; Photographing extended surfaces, e.g. for surveying; Photographing internal surfaces, e.g. of pipe
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/363 using image projection screens volumetric display H04N13/388

Abstract

An equidistant stereo lens shader includes a user controlled device and an output device. The user controlled device includes one or more controllers, which are configured for orientation of a stereo field, orientation of a projection surface relative to a camera, use of converging stereo rays or parallel stereo rays, control over the zero-parallax distance for converging rays, and control over the interocular distance. The output device is configured to output left-eye images, right-eye images, or monoscopic images as equidistant fisheye projections.

Claims

1. An equidistant stereo lens shader, comprising:

a user controlled device, including one or more controllers configured for orientation of a stereo field, orientation of a projection surface relative to a camera, use of converging stereo rays or parallel stereo rays, control over the zero-parallax distance for converging rays, and control over the interocular distance; and

an output device that outputs left-eye, right-eye, or monoscopic images as equidistant fisheye projections.

2. An equidistant lens shader process, comprising the steps of:

controlling orientation of a stereo field;

controlling orientation of a projection surface relative to a camera;

controlling use of converging stereo rays, or parallel stereo rays;

controlling a zero-parallax distance for converging rays;

controlling an interocular distance; and

outputting left-eye, right-eye, or monoscopic images as equidistant fisheye projections with the equidistant stereo lens shader of claim 1.