Method and apparatus for determining two- or three-dimensional display mode of image sequence

An apparatus for determining a 2D or 3D display mode, the apparatus comprising:

• an image input unit which receives an image sequence comprising a current image;
• a 2D/3D image determining unit which determines whether the current image is a 2D or 3D image based on pixel values of the current image and neighboring images of the current image included in the image sequence;
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• a 2D/3D display mode determining unit which determines whether a display mode of the image sequence is the 2D or 3D display mode in accordance with a result of the determining whether the current image is the 2D or 3D image;
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• a display unit which displays the image current image in a 2D format or in a 3D format, in accordance with the 2D display mode or the 3D display mode, respectively, determined by the 2D/3D display mode determining unit.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program, which program, when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute a method of determining a 2D or 3D display mode, the method comprising:

• receiving an image sequence comprising a current image;
• determining whether the current image is a 2D or 3D image based on pixel values of the current image and neighboring images of the current image included in the image sequence;
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• determining whether a display mode for the image sequence is the 2D or 3D display mode in accordance with a result of the determining whether the current image is the 2D or 3D image;
• outputting the current image to an output device in a 2D format based on a determination of the 2D display mode;
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• outputting the current image to the output device in a 3D format based on a determination of the 3D display mode.