System and method for synthesizing three-dimensional video from a two-dimensional video source
CA 2276190 A1 · Owner: Swensen, Loran L. · Inventors: Davidson, Amber C.; Swensen, Loran L.
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The present invention is directed to systems and methods for synthesizing a three-dimensional video stream from a two-dimensional video source. A frame (48) from the two-dimensional video source is digitized (50) and split (54) into a plurality of fields (56, 58). Each field contains a portion of the information in the frame. The fields are then separately processed and transformed (60, 62) to introduce visual clues that when assembled with the , other fields will be interpreted by a viewer as a three-dimensional image. Such transformations can include, but are not limited to skewing , transformation, shifting transformations and scaling transformations. The , transformations may be …
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