Patent ID: 9628770
Date: 2017-04-18
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method of rendering in stereoscopic 3-D a scene comprising a plurality of frames, the computer-implemented method comprising: determining, in dependence only on the plurality of frames comprised by the scene in stereoscopic 3-D, that a rate of change of a first element of the stereoscopic 3-D scene exceeds a predefined threshold, wherein the first element has a perceived depth, and said rate of change comprises a rate of change of visibility within the stereoscopic 3-D scene; identifying a second element of the stereoscopic 3-D scene interacting with the first element, and the second element has a perceived depth; in response to determining that the rate of change of the first element exceeds the predefined threshold, dynamically modifying the perceived depth of the first element and the perceived depth of the second element in the stereoscopic 3-D image such that the perceived depth of the first element and the perceived depth of the second element are similar; and rendering the scene; wherein identifying that said rate of change satisfies a criterion, dynamically modifying the perceived depths, and rendering the scene occur substantially in real-time.