Patent ID: 9294751
Filing Date: 2016-03-22
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for zooming a stereoscopic image appearing on an electronic display of a stereoscopic image displaying device in response to receiving a user zoom request comprising a zoom magnitude, the stereoscopic image comprising a left-eye image and a right-eye image having relative horizontal disparity and being generated by a an electronic processor from stereoscopic image data stored in a memory as a left-eye image pixel map comprising left-eye pixels and a right-eye image pixel map comprising right-eye pixels, the method comprising the steps of: scaling the stereoscopic image data to produce scaled stereoscopic image data in response to the user zoom request; adjusting the horizontal disparity of the scaled stereoscopic image data to produce disparity-adjusted, scaled stereoscopic image data based on a heuristic defining a relationship between the user zoom request, a predetermined stereoscopic factor F displaying a zoomed stereoscopic image on the display corresponding to the disparity-adjusted, scaled stereoscopic image data.