Patent ID: 8208013
Filing Date: 2012-06-26
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A stereoscopic display system, comprising: a first left-eye perspective image data source configured to supply first left-eye image data representative of an image of an object from a left-eye perspective; a first right-eye perspective image data source configured to supply first right-eye image data representative of the image of the object from a right-eye perspective; a second left-eye perspective image data source configured to supply second left-eye image data representative of an image of symbology from the left-eye perspective; a second right-eye perspective image data sources configured to supply second right-eye image data representative of the image of the symbology from the right-eye perspective; a stereoscopic display having an effective focus plane and configured to simultaneously display, at a separation distance, the image of the object from the left-eye perspective and the image of the object from the right-eye perspective, and to further simultaneously display, at a second separation distance, the image of the symbology from the left-eye perspective and the image of the symbology from the right-eye perspective, whereby a user may simultaneously view a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the image of the object and the image of the symbology; a left-eye image reference data source operable to supply left-eye image reference data representative of one or more reference features in the image of the object and in the image of the symbology; a right-eye image reference data source operable to supply right-eye image reference data representative of the one or more reference features in the image of the object and in the image of the symbology; and a parallax controller coupled to receive the left-eye image data, the right-eye image data, the left-eye image reference data, the right-eye image reference data, and a user-adjustable input control signal, the parallax controller configured, in response to the left-eye image reference data, the right-eye image reference data, and the user-adjustable input control signal to determine the first and the second separation distances, and further configured to command the stereoscopic display to simultaneously display (i) the image of the object from the left-eye perspective and the image of the object from the right-eye perspective, separated by the first separation distance and (ii) the image of the symbology from the left-eye perspective and the image of the symbology from the right-eye perspective, separated by the second separation distance.