Programming architecture supporting mixed two and three dimensional displays

• US 9,654,767 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2010
• Issued: 05/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte Limited (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP PTE Limited (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bennett, James D., Karaoguz, Jeyhan
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phu K
• Application Number:
  US12/982,156
• Publication Number:
  US 20110157170A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,329 Days
• Field of Search: 345102, 345419, 348 51, 348 55, 348 59, 348564, 349 15
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 6/00 Light guides; Structural details of arrangements comprising light guides and other optical elements, e.g. couplings
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 35/24 using apertured or refractive resolving means on screens or between screen and eye
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0346 with detection of the device orientation or free movement in a 3D space, e.g. 3D mice, 6-DOF [six degrees of freedom] pointers using gyroscopes, accelerometers or tilt-sensors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/14 Digital output to display device ; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/023 Display panel composed of stacked panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2320/028 by changing the viewing angle properties, e.g. widening the viewing angle, adapting the viewing angle to the view direction
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/04 Exchange of auxiliary data, i.e. other than image data, between monitor and graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/003 to produce spatial visual effects
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/20 for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/00 Stereoscopic video systems; Multi-view video systems; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/139 Format conversion, e.g. of frame-rate or size
• 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 13/189 Recording image signals; Reproducing recorded image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/194 Transmission of image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/305 using lenticular lenses, e.g. arrangements of cylindrical lenses
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/31 using parallax barriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/312 the parallax barriers being placed behind the display panel, e.g. between backlight and spatial light modulator [SLM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/315 the parallax barriers being time-variant
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/332 : Displays for viewing with the aid of special glasses or head-mounted displays [HMD]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/351 : for displaying simultaneously
• 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 13/366 : using viewer tracking
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/383 : for tracking with gaze detection, i.e. detecting the lines of sight of the viewer's eyes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/398 : Synchronisation thereof; Control thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2013/403 : the images being monoscopic
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2013/405 : the images being stereoscopic or three dimensional
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 : Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 : additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 : Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 7/303 : Tracking of listener position or orientation

Abstract

Applications are provided that contain code of a programming language enabling simultaneous display on a screen of both two-dimensional and three-dimensional content. Furthermore, development systems and program libraries supporting the same are provided. A first command is generated by first program code of an application. The first command directs a first configuration of a first region of the screen to support the three-dimensional content. A second command is generated by second program code of the application. The second command directs a second configuration of a second region of the screen to support the two-dimensional content. The display of the three-dimensional content is caused within the first region of the screen, and the display of the two-dimensional content is caused within the second region of the screen.

Claims

1. A software development kit, stored within a computer-readable memory, for a programming language that enables simultaneous display on a screen of both two-dimensional content and three-dimensional content, the software development kit comprising:

a source code editor configured to enable applications to be generated based on code of the programming language;

a compiler that compiles code written in the programming language into compiled code; and

a first library module that responds to first program calls by assisting in establishing a first region of a screen, the establishing of the first region involving placing the first region in a first configuration to support display of first content, the first configuration being a first three-dimensional configuration, and the first content being three-dimensional content;

a second library module that responds to second program calls by assisting in establishing a second region of the screen, the establishing of the second region involving placing the second region in a second configuration to support display of second content, the first configuration being different than the second configuration; and

wherein the compiler is configured to link the compiled code with at least one of the first library module or the second library module.

2. The software development kit of claim 1, wherein the programming language provides functions for specifying at least one of a three-dimensional type of the three-dimensional content, a displayed orientation of the three-dimensional content, a displayed contrast of the three-dimensional content, a displayed brightness of the three-dimensional content, or a displayed resolution of the three-dimensional content.

3. The software development kit of claim 1, wherein the compiled code comprises a display configuration command code that, when executed, causes a window that displays the three-dimensional content to be opened in the second region of the screen.

4. The software development kit of claim 3, wherein the compiled code comprises a content display command code that, when executed, delivers content to a screen region opened on the screen according to the display configuration command code.

5. The software development kit of claim 3, wherein the compiled code comprises a content translation code that, when executed, converts a first type of content to a second type of content to be provided for display by the screen in a screen region opened on the screen according to the display configuration command code.

6. The software development kit of claim 5, wherein the content translation code is configured to translate types of content that are unsupported by a display device associated with the content translation code to types of content that are supported by the display device.

7. The software development kit of claim 5, wherein the content translation code comprises at least one translator for:

a display device that does not support display of three-dimensional content; and

a display device that does not support display of one or more types of three-dimensional content.

8. The software development kit of claim 1, further comprising:

a third library module that responds to third program calls by assisting in establishing multiple regions of the screen, placing the multiple regions in one or more corresponding configurations to support display of two-dimensional and three-dimensional content.

9. The software development kit of claim 1, wherein the compiled code comprises code that generates a request for an indication of at least one characteristic of a display screen.

10. The software development kit of claim 1, wherein the compiled code comprises code that receives an input signal from a user input interface.

11. The software development kit of claim 10, wherein the compiled code generates a command that is configured to cause an adjustment of at least one of the first content or the second content.

12. The software development kit of claim 11, wherein the adjustment comprises at least one of resizing, rotating, moving, or changing a degree of three-dimensionality of a region or an object that is displayed as three-dimensional.

13. A computer program product stored within a computer-readable memory for enabling a processor to display content on a screen that supports two-dimensional display and three-dimensional display, the computer program product comprising:

one or more library modules that receive one or more commands, the one or more library modules comprising a two-dimensional display supporting library module, a three-dimensional display supporting library module, and a mixed two-dimensional or three-dimensional display supporting library module, the mixed two-dimensional and three-dimensional display supporting library module being configured to assist in establishing multiple regions of the screen and placing the multiple regions in one or more corresponding configurations to support display of two-dimensional and three-dimensional content;

first code that delivers the one or more commands to the one or more library modules, the one or more commands being indicative of a viewing dimension, the one or more library modules responding to the one or more commands by at least in part placing a first screen region in a selected one of a two-dimensional configuration or a three-dimensional configuration, the selection in conformance with the viewing dimension; and

second code that at least assists in establishing display of content in the first screen region of the screen.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising:

third code that generates a request for an indication of at least one characteristic of a display screen.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, further comprising:

fourth code that converts two-dimensional content to three dimensional content to be provided for display by the display screen in the first screen region if a response to the generated request indicates that the display screen does not support three-dimensional display.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the first code configures a parameter of the command to indicate at least one of a displayed orientation of three-dimensional content associated with the command, a displayed contrast, displayed brightness, or a displayed resolution of three-dimensional content associated with the command.

17. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising:

third code that receives an input signal from a user input interface; and

fourth code that generates a third command in response to the input signal that is configured to cause an adjustment of a three-dimensional characteristic of three-dimensional content displayed in the first screen region.

18. A program library supporting a programming language and stored within a computer-readable memory, the program library comprising:

a first predefined module that responds to first program calls by assisting in establishing a first region of a screen, the establishing of the first region involving placing the first region in a first configuration to support display of first content, the first configuration being a first three-dimensional configuration, and the first content being three-dimensional content;

a second predefined module that responds to second program calls by assisting in establishing a second region of the screen, the establishing of the second region involving placing the second region in a second configuration to support display of second content, the first configuration being different than the second configuration; and

a third predefined module that responds to third program calls by assisting in establishing multiple regions of the screen, the establishing of the multiple regions involving placing the multiple regions in one or more corresponding configurations to support display of two-dimensional and three-dimensional content.

19. The program library of claim 18, wherein the second configuration is a first two-dimensional configuration.

20. The program library of claim 18, wherein the second configuration is a second three-dimensional configuration, and the first configuration and the second configuration differ by at least one three-dimensional characteristic.