Patent ID: 6271876
Filing Date: 2001-08-07
Classification: G03B,H04N

Abstract:
A method of making a stereoscopic image of a scene, comprising:providing a camera having an image sensor for capturing the first image of the scene and a photosensitive medium for capturing a second image of the scene, wherein the second image of the scene is captured from a viewpoint displaced in position from the viewpoint from where the first image was captured;allowing a user to provide an indication to a photofinisher as to which images are to be produced as stereoscopic images;digitizing both the first and second images;converting both the first and second digitized images to a common color space;converting both the first and second digitized images to a common number of pixels;generating forward and reverse vector fields which define the spatial displacements between the digitized images that are due to parallax, and employing these vector fields to generate a pair of digitized images, both of which have improved characteristics, and which maintain the stereoscopic information; andproducing visual images of the first and second separate capture digital images which, to a viewer, provides a stereoscopic image of the scene.