Process for increasing the clarity and legibility of graphics, text, and continuous tone composites in lenticular images
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsKathryn Boddie Lomb, Carl D. Teger, Roger Roy Adams Morton
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Abstract
System and method forms a lenticular viewing card having viewable depth or motion images by processing an original image into digital form and sampling and shifting the processed original image into at least two frames of images shifted perpendicular to the lenticular direction from each other by being sampled at different points. These frames of images are sliced and interlaced into a merged image that is printed and positioning into a viewing position with a lenticular lens sheet to permit a sequential viewing of the frames making up the merged image as a function of a user's viewing angle.
Claims12
A method for forming a lenticular image having viewable depth or motion effects, comprising the steps of:
- providing a lenticule sheet having a plurality of lenticules trrayed in a given direction,
- interlacing at least two frames of the same image with at least one frame sequentially displaced perpendicular to said given direction;
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- positioning said lenticule sheet of so as to view the image content of the interlaced frames of the same image.
A method for forming a lenticular card having viewable depth or motion images, comprising the steps of:
- a) obtaining at least two frames of the same image;
- b) displacing each frame perpendicular to a lenticular direction and recording onto a support base in interleaved slices;
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- c) laminating a sheet of lenticular material having a plurality of elongated lens elements the length of each defining the lenticular direction to said support base with each lenticule in registration with corresponding slices.
An imaging method comprising the steps of:
- a) processing an image of a subject into a plurality of images by sampling at different positions;
- b) merging the plurality of sampled images to provide merged interlaced images;
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- c) positioning the merged images with respect to a sheet of lenticular lenses in a viewing position to permit viewing of the plurality of images.
A method for forming an image comprising the steps of:
- a) forming multiple frames of image data by repeatably sampling an original image with at least one of the samplings being displaced in position from a preceding sampling;
- b) interleaving the samples from each of the multiple frames;
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- c) positioning the interleaved multiple frames with respect to a lenticular sheet having a plurality of lenticular lenses into viewing alignment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.