Apparatus and method for providing three dimensional media content
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsChao Tian, Vinay Anant Vaishampayan, Yifu Zhang
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Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the exemplary embodiments may include, for example, means for generating a disparity map based on a depth map, means for determining accuracy of pixels in the depth map where the determining means identifies the pixels as either accurate or inaccurate based on a confidence map and the disparity map, and means for providing an adjusted depth map where the providing means adjusts inaccurate pixels of the depth map using a cost function associated with the inaccurate pixels. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims18
A system comprising:
- means for generating a disparity map based on a depth map;
- means for determining accuracy of pixels in the depth map, wherein the determining means identifies the pixels as either accurate or inaccurate based on a confidence map and the disparity map;
- and
- means for providing an adjusted depth map, wherein the providing means adjusts inaccurate pixels of the depth map using a cost function associated with the inaccurate pixels.
A method comprising:
- obtaining a depth map and a confidence map associated with an object;
- obtaining a stereo image pair of the object;
- generating a disparity map based on the depth map;
- determining accuracy of pixels in the depth map based on the confidence map and the disparity map;
- and
- adjusting inaccurate pixels of the depth map to generate an adjusted depth map using a cost function associated with the inaccurate pixels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.