Method of Defining Stereoscopic Depth
AssigneeImageMovers Digital LLC
InventorAnthony Shafer
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Abstract
A method for efficiently manipulating 3D scenes recorded by a virtual camera using a computer system comprised of projectors, graphics accelerators, one or more CPUs, instances of 3D rendering software, and a MIDI interface, includes receiving from the MIDI controller camera parameters, defining left camera and right camera parameters based on the camera parameters, determining left and right images based upon left and right camera parameters, projecting left and right images, viewing left and right images, integrating left and right images to represent a 3D scene, manipulating the 3D scene until the user is satisfied, and storing the left and right camera parameters, and storing the left and right images.
Claims7
A method for a computer system comprising:
- providing a pair of 3D filtering glasses to a user with a right lens and a left lens, the left lens and the right lens comprised of complimentary filters;
- while the user wears the 3D filtering glasses, providing the user with a left-eye image of a scene to the user's left eye and a right-eye image of a scene to the user's right eye;
- providing a first and second virtual camera control device, wherein the control device is visible by the left eye and the right eye of the user while the user wears the 3D filtering glasses;
- while the user wears the 3D filtering glasses, receiving input settings associated with the first virtual camera and/or the second virtual camera from the user manipulating the first and second virtual camera control device;
- determining a first plurality of virtual camera parameters associated with the first virtual camera in response to the input settings;
- determining a second plurality of virtual camera parameters associated with the second virtual camera in response to the input settings;
- rendering a revised left-eye image of a scene in response to the first plurality of virtual camera parameters;
- rendering a revised right-eye image of a scene in response to the second plurality of virtual camera parameters;
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- while the user wears the 3D filtering glasses, providing the user with the revised left-eye image of the scene to the left eye and the revised right-eye image of the scene to the right eye of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.