Patent ID: 6535629
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A method for storing and/or transmitting 3D image information comprising the steps of:producing an image to be stored and/or transmitted comprising an array of strongly correlated neighboring sub-images; casting the sub-images on to a pixel screen capturing the sub-images as electronic data; compressing the electronic data by eliminating redundancies associated with the sub-images; storing and/or transmitting the compressed data; the compression being reversible in a decorrelating technique so as to expand the data to re-create the sub-images for viewing as a 3D image through an optical viewing system comprising a microlens or lenticular array; wherein the microlens or lenticular array is adapted for integral image recording during compression and a 3D-DCT coding scheme is applied directly to groups of neighboring sub-images, where for each group, the first two dimensions removing intra-sub-image redundancies and the third dimension eliminating inter-sub-image redundancies.