Patent ID: 9172939
Filing Date: 2015-10-27
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A system for adjusting the perceived depth of a stereoscopic image, comprising: a disparity estimator configured to receive a stereoscopic image having an initial perceived depth, to estimate disparities in the stereoscopic image, and to generate an estimator signal comprising the estimated disparities by computing a first disparity field and a second disparity field and spatially decimating the first and second disparity fields; a disparity processor configured to receive the estimator signal from the disparity estimator and a depth control signal generated based on a depth value input by a user which indicates a desired perceived depth and to generate a processor signal based on the estimator signal and the depth control signal by selecting an adaptive two-dimensional filter based on local characteristics of a disparities region, applying the selected filter to the estimator signal, and up-scaling the first and second disparity fields to dimensions corresponding to the stereoscopic image; and a warping engine configured to receive the processor signal and to generate an adjusted stereoscopic image by warping the processor signal based on a model.