Patent ID: 9565415
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for presenting stereoscopic content comprising a plurality of sequential stereoscopic image pairs, each image pair including a first view and a second view, the method comprising: detecting when there is a channel or scene change; detecting via occurrence of said channel or scene change an occurrence of a depth jump between a first and a second image pairs of the plurality of image pairs, the first and second image pairs being consecutive pairs characterized respectively by a first disparity and a second disparity with the first image pair preceding the second image pair; and determining a disparity range for each image pairs in a defined window of frames including any depth jump; changing respective disparities for at least the first and second image pairs when there is an increase or decrease between depth changes, a third image pair preceding the first image pair, and a fourth image pair after the second image pair for use in presenting the stereoscopic content; after changing the respective disparities, any two consecutive image pairs appearing between the third and fourth image pairs has a disparity difference that is less than a difference between the first disparity and the second disparity; wherein the changing is performed incrementally and wherein each disparity change from one image pair to a next sequential image pair, all preceding the depth jump, is based at least in part on a disparity range for the first image pair; and performing a depth detection step to determine where further depth adjustment is required and if such adjustment is required, performing a further change.