Playback device that can play stereoscopic video, integrated circuit, playback method and program

• US 8,558,871 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2010
• Issued: 10/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamaji, Osamu, Leichsenring, Germano
• Primary Examiner(s): VO, TUNG T
• Application Number:
  US13/394,837
• Publication Number:
  US 20120169729A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,114 Days
• Field of Search: 348/42, 348 46- 49
• US Class Current: 348/42
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/0021 involving encryption or decryption of contents recorded on or reproduced from a record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00246 wherein the key is obtained from a local device, e.g. device key initially stored by the player or by the recorder
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00362 the key being obtained from a media key block [MKB]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00528 wherein each title is encrypted with a separate encryption key for each title, e.g. title key for movie, song or data file
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10537 Audio or video recording
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/1289 Formatting of user data
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2541 Blu-ray discs; Blue laser DVR discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/156 Mixing image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/183 On-screen display [OSD] information, e.g. subtitles or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/359 Switching between monoscopic and stereoscopic modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/361 Reproducing mixed stereoscopic images; Reproducing mixed monoscopic and stereoscopic images, e.g. a stereoscopic image overlay window on a monoscopic image background
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 for more than one processing mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8233 the additional signal being a character code signal

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 configured to activate and execute a bytecode application, the bytecode application issuing a request for rendering graphics;

a left-view graphics plane and a right-view graphics plane; and

a renderer that receives and accepts the request and renders the graphics in response to the request;

a switch configured to switch a current plane setting between a one-plane setting and a two-plane setting, the one-plane setting being a setting with which one of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane is used for rendering the graphics at a time of monoscopic playback and stereoscopic playback of the graphics, the two-plane setting being a setting with which both of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane are used for rendering the graphics at a time of stereoscopic playback of the graphics, wherein

the request is either a request for rendering 2D graphics or a request for rendering 3D graphics,

the renderer, when accepting the request for rendering the 2D graphics when the current plane setting is the one-plane setting, renders the 2D graphics by using the one of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane, and when accepting the request for rendering the 3D graphics when the current plane setting is the two-plane setting, renders the 3D graphics by using both of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane, and

when the switch switches the current plane setting from the one-plane setting to the two-plane setting and the request for rendering the 2D graphics has been issued before the switch switches the current plane setting from the one-plane setting to the two-plane setting, the renderer, before accepting the request for rendering the 3D graphics, performs first processing of invalidating the request for rendering the 2D graphics, second processing of copying the 2D graphics stored in the one of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane having been used for rendering the 2D graphics to the other of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane, and third processing of outputting the 2D graphics stored in each of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane.

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

a decoder configured to decode a stereoscopic video stream stored on a recording medium to obtain first viewpoint picture data and second viewpoint picture data;

a first viewpoint video plane configured to store therein the first viewpoint picture data;

a second viewpoint video plane configured to store therein the second viewpoint picture data;

a composer configured to perform first viewpoint composition and second viewpoint composition,

the first viewpoint composition composing the graphics stored in the one of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view having been used for rendering the 2D graphics with the first viewpoint picture data; and

the second viewpoint composition composing the graphics stored in the other of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane with the second viewpoint picture data, wherein

when the switch switches the current plane setting from the one-plane setting to the two-plane setting, the composer starts composing the graphics stored in the other of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane with the second viewpoint picture data after the renderer has copied the graphics stored in the one of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view having been used for rendering the 2D graphics to the other of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane, and

the renderer accepts the request for rendering the 3D graphics after the composer has composed the graphics stored in the other of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane with the second viewpoint picture data.

3. The playback device of claim 2, wherein

the switch switches the current plane setting from the two-plane setting to the one-plane setting after the renderer invalidates the request for rendering the 3D graphics, the composer composes the graphics stored in the one of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane having been used for rendering the 2D graphics with the first viewpoint picture data and the renderer accepts the request for rendering the 2D graphics from the bytecode application after the composer has composed the graphics stored in the one of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane having been used for rendering the 2D graphics with the first viewpoint picture data.

4. The playback device of claim 3, wherein

the switch switches the current plane setting 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 request for rendering the 2D graphics to be invalidated follows the plane setting request.

5. The playback device of claim 4, wherein

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

the renderer invalidates the request for rendering the 2D graphics 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 causes the bytecode application and the renderer to perform multi-thread processing,

the request for rendering the 2D graphics 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 renderer, and

the renderer invalidates the request for rendering the 2D graphics by deleting the request for rendering the 2D graphics 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 renderer includes a left/right plane rendering module that renders, exclusively in a 3D playback mode, the graphics simultaneously in each of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane,

the renderer accepts the request for rendering the 3D graphics by starting the left/right plane rendering module, and

the renderer invalidates the request for rendering the 3D graphics 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 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. A playback method that is used in a computer that includes a platform that activates and executes a bytecode application, the bytecode application issuing a request for rendering graphics, and a left-view graphics plane and a right-view graphics plane, the method comprising:

receiving the request from the bytecode application; and

switching a current plane setting between a one-plane setting and a two-plane setting, the one-plane setting being a setting with which one of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane is used for rendering the graphics at a time of monoscopic playback and stereoscopic playback of the graphics, the two-plane setting being a setting with which both of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane are used for rendering the graphics at a time of stereoscopic playback of the graphics, wherein

the request is either a request for rendering 2D graphics or a request for rendering 3D graphics, and

when the switching switches the current plane setting from the one-plane setting to the two-plane setting and the request for rendering the 2D graphics has been issued before the switching switches the current plane setting from the one-plane setting to the two-plane setting, before the request for rendering the 3D graphics is accepted, first processing is performed of invalidating the request for rendering the 2D graphics, second processing is performed of copying the 2D graphics stored in the one of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane having been used for rendering the 2D graphics to the other of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane, and third processing is performed of outputting the 2D graphics stored in each of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane.

12. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a program that operates on a computer that includes a platform that activates and executes a bytecode application, the bytecode application issuing a request for rendering graphics, and a left-view graphics plane and a right-view graphics plane, the program causing the computer to perform:

receiving the request from the bytecode application; and

switching a current plane setting between a one-plane setting and a two-plane setting, the one-plane setting being a setting with which one of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane is used for rendering the graphics at a time of monoscopic playback and stereoscopic playback of the graphics, the two-plane setting being a setting with which both of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane are used for rendering the graphics at a time of stereoscopic playback of the graphics, wherein

the request is either a request for rendering 2D graphics or a request for rendering 3D graphics, and

when the switching switches the current plane setting from the one-plane setting to the two-plane setting and the request for rendering the 2D graphics has been issued before the switching switches the current plane setting from the one-plane setting to the two-plane setting, before the request for rendering the 3D graphics is accepted, first processing is performed of invalidating the request for rendering the 2D graphics, second processing is performed of copying the 2D graphics stored in the one of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane having been used for rendering the 2D graphics to the other of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane, and third processing is performed of outputting the 2D graphics stored in each of the left-view graphics plane and the right-view graphics plane.