Patent ID: 8253729
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An improved process employing at least in part a digital computer system for converting a 2D motion picture sequence into a 3D stereoscopic motion picture sequence; said process comprising at least in part the creation of 3D depth information and for at least some 2D image frames of said 2D motion picture sequence for a particular 2D image frame the creation of at least one processed 2D image frame by geometrically distorting at least some visual information of said particular 2D image frame in accordance with said 3D depth information; such that two or more of said 2D image frames associated with said particular 2D image frame, when appropriately displayed to a viewer, are suitable to create the perception of a 3D stereoscopic image frame of said 3D motion picture sequence; wherein said improvement comprises: a. developing at least one 3D model information, in addition to an optional default 3D model information, in association with at least some portion of at least one object depicted in said 2D motion picture sequence, at least one of said at least one 3D model information being inaccurate as applied to at least one of said 2D image frames; b. for at least some frames in said 2D motion picture sequence, developing at least one object tag information, in addition to an optional default object tag information, in association with at least some portion of at least one object depicted in said 2D motion picture sequence; c. developing at least one association between said at least one 3D model information and said at least one object tag information; and, d. utilizing said 3D depth information to create at least some particular 2D processed image frames; further comprising at least in part that, for each of said at least some particular processed 2D image frames, for at least one particular portion of the corresponding 2D image frame, 3D depth information is selected to be utilized not from the comparable portion of the comparable 3D model information that is closest to the computational viewer position in depth space, but from the comparable portion of a distinct 3D model information that is associated with the object tag information associated with the particular one of each of said at least one particular portion of the 2D image frame corresponding to the particular one of said at least some 2D processed image frames.