US 8,542,241 B2Granted

Stereoscopic content auto-judging mechanism

AssigneeAcer Incorporated

InventorsJian-Wei Lee, Chueh-Pin Ko, Hsin-Yu Chen

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Abstract

A method of playing an original 3D content on a 3D enabled monitor, where the 3D enabled monitor does not support the original 3D format type of the original 3D content. The method includes the steps of automatically reading a portion the original 3D content to obtain an identity of the original 3D format type, this portion may or may not be a tag, and reading this portion may include playing multiple frames of the 3D content. The preferred method further includes automatically detecting a monitor and its 3D display format type. If no match is found between the original 3D format type and the display format type, then the method deconstruct the original image content and reconstruct the image content into a 3D format type supported by the 3D display format type.

Claims15

Dependent claims

A method of displaying an original 3D content on a 3D enabled display device where the 3D enabled display device does not support an original 3D format type of the original 3D content, said method comprising:

reading a portion the original 3D content to obtain an identity of the original 3D format type;
detecting a display hardware;
determining a supported 3D format type that the display hardware supports by first looking at the extended display identification data of the display hardware, wherein the determining step further comprises the step of identifying the proper orientation of at least one image being displayed simultaneously, by moving the at least one image along an X-axis, and compares a similarity between the said at least one image with another image;
finding out whether or not there is a match between the original 3D format type of the original 3D content and the supported 3D format type that the display hardware supports;
if there is a match, continuing playing the original 3D content and displaying the original 3D content on the display hardware;
and
if there is not a match, converting the original 3D content into a converted 3D content having a converted 3D format type that matches with the supported 3D format type that the display hardware supports, and playing the converted 3D content and displaying the converted 3D content on the display hardware.

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A 3D content processing device to play an original 3D content having an original 3D format type, so that the original 3D content can be displayed on a display hardware which does not support the original 3D format type, the processing device includes:

a processor;
a memory in communication with the processor;
an algorithm configured to read a portion the original 3D content to obtain information regarding the original 3D format type;
an algorithm configured to detect a supported 3D format type of the display hardware by first looking at the extended display identification data (EDID) of the display hardware, wherein the display hardware is electronically coupled to the processing device;
an algorithm configured to find out whether or not there is a match between the original 3D format type and the supported 3D format type;
an algorithm configured to play the original 3D content and send the original 3D content to the display hardware if there is a match;
an algorithm configured to convert the original 3D content into a converted 3D content having a supported 3D format type, and playing the converted 3D content and send the converted 3D content to the display hardware, if there is not a match;
and
a frame buffer configured to move at least one image along an X-axis, among a plurality of images being displayed simultaneously, and compares a similarity between the said at least one image with another image.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/769,671Filed 29 Apr 2010
Published: US 2011/0267360 A13 Nov 2011
Granted: 24 Sep 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G09G 5/005
Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto: adapting…
H04N 13/139
Processing image signals: format conversion, e.g. of frame-rate or size
G09G 2370/022
Networking aspects: centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally
G09G 2370/042
Exchange of auxiliary data, i.e. other than image data, between monitor and graphics controller: for monitor identification

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