Image transfer apparatus and method
AssigneeSony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited
InventorsIan Henry Bickerstaff, Simon Mark Benson, Oliver Wright
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Abstract
An image transfer apparatus comprises an input operable to receive a signal comprising two images for different respective non-stereoscopic viewpoints of a virtual environment, a first output operable to transmit a signal comprising the two images formatted as a stereoscopic image to at least a first display, and a transmitter operable to transmit control signals to at least two active shutter glasses, the control signals arranged to allow respective wearers of the glasses to only view a respective one of the two images.
Claims17
An image transfer apparatus, comprising an input operable to receive a signal comprising two non- stereoscopic images for different respective viewpoints of a virtual environment;
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- a first output operable to transmit a signal comprising the two non-stereoscopic images formatted as a stereoscopic image to at least a first 3D display that does not support a dual-view mode;
- and in which the apparatus is operable to identify itself to a source of the received signal as capable of dual-view display of the two images, and meanwhile operable to identify itself to the first 3D display as a source of a conventional 3D TV signal.
A method of image transfer for an image transfer apparatus, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a video signal comprising two non-stereoscopic images for different respective viewpoints of a virtual environment;
- transmitting to a first output a video signal comprising the two non-stereoscopic images formatted as if they were a stereoscopic image to at least a first 3D display that does not support a dual-view mode;
- identifying the image transfer apparatus to a source of the received video signal as capable of dual-view display of the two images;
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- identifying the image transfer apparatus to the at least first 3D display as a source of a conventional 3D TV signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.