Patent ID: 9674500
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method of adjusting depth in a stereoscopic video, the method comprising: determining a horizontal offset and a vertical offset of a first position of an element in a first frame of a monoscopic video with respect to a second position of the element in a second frame of the monoscopic video; generating a modified first frame based on the horizontal offset of the element while removing the vertical offset of the element such that the element is horizontally offset in the modified first frame as compared to the first frame and such that the element is not vertically offset in the modified first frame as compared to the first frame; generating a first-eye viewing frame of a stereoscopic video based on one or more of the first frame and the modified first frame, the first-eye viewing frame including a plurality of first-eye viewing frame elements; generating a second-eye viewing frame of the stereoscopic video based on one or more of the first frame and the modified first frame, the second-eye viewing frame corresponding to the first-eye viewing frame and including a plurality of second-eye viewing frame elements, each second-eye viewing frame element corresponding to one of the first-eye viewing frame element; determining an offset between each second-eye viewing frame element and its corresponding first-eye viewing frame element, wherein one or more of the offsets differ from one or more other offsets; and uniformly applying a multiplying factor to each offset to generate a modified offset for each offset such that a perceived depth associated with the stereoscopic video is adjusted on a substantially uniform scale, wherein each modified offset is a multiple of its corresponding offset by the multiplying factor.