Patent ID: 6441844
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A solid-pictorial video signal transmitting apparatus, comprising:a front video camera generating a front picture; a pair of left and right video cameras placed with said front video camera interposed therebetween, said left and right video cameras generating left and right pictures, respectively, each overlapping said front picture; a first encoder unit for processing a front video signal outputted from said front video camera; second and third encoder units for respectively effecting a compressing process on left and right video signals outputted from said pair of left and right video cameras while referring to said front video signal thereby to generate respective left portion and right portion solid-pictorial video signals representing differences between the left and front pictures, and right and front pictures, respectively; a transport stream converter for converting the outputs of said respective first, second and third encoder units to transport stream signals; a multiplexing unit for multiplexing said transport stream signals; and a signal transmitting unit for transmitting a multiplexed solid-pictorial video signal; whereby at a receiving device, a two dimensional front picture is derivable from the front video signal alone, and a solid-pictorial image is obtainable from restored left and right pictures derived from the processed front, left portion and right portion video signals.