US 2011/0254918 A1Published application

Stereoscopic system, and image processing apparatus and method for enhancing perceived depth in stereoscopic images

OwnerHsiu-Ping CHOUinventor

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Abstract

A stereoscopic system includes: a storage device; an image transforming module coupled to the storage device to receive therefrom image frame data of correlated first and second image sequences that are acquired from a source video stream, and configured to apply at least one of geometric distortion and geometric tilt processes to the image frame data of at least one of the first and second image sequences for outputting image frame data of corresponding first and second intermediate image sequences; a stereoscopic image sequence generating module coupled to the image transforming module for receiving the image frame data of the first and second intermediate image sequences therefrom, and configured to process the image frame data for obtaining image frame data of a stereoscopic image sequence; and a stereoscopic viewing device coupled to the stereoscopic image sequence generating module for enabling viewing of the stereoscopic image sequence by a user.

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Dependent claims

A stereoscopic system comprising:

a storage device for storing image frame data of correlated first and second image sequences that are acquired from a source video stream;
an image trans forming module coupled to said storage device for receiving the image frame data of the first and second image sequences therefrom, and configured to apply at least one of a geometric distortion process and a geometric tilt process to the image frame data of at least one of the first and second image sequences so as to output image frame data of corresponding first and second intermediate image sequences, wherein image frames in the first intermediate image sequence are geometrically different from image frames in the second intermediate image sequence;
a stereoscopic image sequence generating module coupled to said image trans forming module for receiving the image frame data of the first and second intermediate image sequences therefrom, and configured to process the image frame data of the first and second intermediate image sequences so as to obtain image frame data of a stereoscopic image sequence;
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a stereoscopic viewing device coupled to said stereoscopic image sequence generating module and configured to enable viewing of the stereoscopic image sequence with Pulfrich effect by a user.

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An image processing apparatus comprising:

a storage device for storing image frame data of correlated first and second image sequences that are acquired from a source video stream;
an image transforming module coupled to said storage device for receiving the image frame data of the first and second image sequences therefrom, and configured to apply at least one of a geometric distortion process and a geometric tilt process to the image frame data of at least one of the first and second image sequences so as to output image frame data of corresponding first and second intermediate image sequences, wherein image frames in the first intermediate image sequence are geometrically different from image frames in the second intermediate image sequence;
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a stereoscopic image sequence generating module coupled to said image transforming module for receiving the image frame data of the first and second intermediate image sequences therefrom, and configured to process the image frame data of the first and second intermediate image sequences so as to obtain image frame data of a stereoscopic image sequence.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.