Patent ID: 6040852
Filing Date: 2000-03-21
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A method for the recording and reproduction of stereoscopic video images of observed scenes, the video images constructed by two coordinated image-acquiring devices (5a, 5b) such that the images include at least a right and a left frame for a right and a left image channel, the frames constructed in each case from at least one even or odd field (HB) or from respectively at least one correlated pair (VB) of an even and an odd field (HP), wherein during recording a recording device (1a, 1b) and/or a reproducing device (2a, 2b) are alternatingly or simultaneously fed fields (HB), respectively correlated to form a scene, from the two image-acquiring devices (5a, 5b), or two pairs (VB), respectively correlated to form a scene, of fields from the two image-acquiring devices (5a, 5b), without compression of a field, and wherein at least one of the fields (HB) or one of the pairs (VB) of fields is detected during the reproduction of the stereoscopic video images such that the fields (HD) or pairs (VB) of fields are assigned to an associated left or right image channel in order, subsequently, to process further all the images (HB, VB) associated with the left channel only in the left channel and all the images (HB, VB) associated with the right channel only in the right channel, and only after separate further processing to combine them alternately via a video signal coupler with a frequency such that when the combined signal is reproduced on a monitor, the monitor shows no flickering and avoids an interlaced appearance of an odd field of the left channel with an even field of the right channel and further avoids an appearance of a first field of a first channel with said first field of said first channel repeated immediately thereafter.