Methods and system of multiview video rendering, preparing a multiview cache, and real-time multiview video conversion

A computer-implemented method of preparing a multiview video cache, the method comprising:

• receiving multiview video information comprising two-dimensional (2D) frames by a computing device, each 2D frame corresponding to a respective view of a multiview video and corresponding to a multiview video timestamp;
• populating the cache with cache data entries corresponding to respective different multiview video timestamps, wherein each cache data entry comprises copies of the 2D frames for a particular respective timestamp;
• and
• generating a first cache data entry of the cache corresponding to a first timestamp, wherein the first cache data entry comprises a tiled image, and tiles of the tiled image correspond to respective ones of the copies of the 2D frames for the first timestamp.

A system configured to perform real-time multiview video conversion, the system comprising:

• a processor circuit;
• and
• a memory that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to:
• receive a target timestamp for a particular multiview frame to render;
• retrieve, from a cache, a pair of cache data entries corresponding to the target timestamp, first and second cache data entries of the pair of cache data entries comprise respective first and second image frame groups, the first image frame group corresponds to a first multiview frame preceding the target timestamp and the second image frame group corresponds to a second multiview frame following the target timestamp;
• and
• generate a multiview frame using information from the first and second image frame groups by blending the information from the first and second image frame groups, wherein the blending includes weighting an influence of each of the image frame groups proportional to a time difference of each of the cache data entries relative to the target timestamp,
• wherein the multiview frame comprises a portion of a multiview video configured to be rendered on a multiview display.