Patent ID: 7391811

Claim:
A stereoscopic image encoding and decoding device, comprising a stereoscopic image encoding device and a stereoscopic image decoding device, wherein said stereoscopic image encoding device includes a stereoscopic image pre-processor for multiplexing left-eye images, right-eye images, and high resolution added images for turning the left-eye images or the right-eye images to images of high resolution and forming one image, and an image encoding unit for encoding said one image processed by the stereoscopic image pre-processor, while said stereoscopic image decoding device includes an image decoding unit for decoding said one image encoded by the image encoding unit, a stereoscopic image post-processor for separating said one image decoded by the image decoding unit into the left-eye images, the right-eye images, and the high resolution added images for turning the left-eye images or the right-eye images to the images of high resolution and wherein ones of the left-eye images, the right-eye images, and the high resolution added images, are arranged in two of the odd lines of the (3n+1)th frame (n is an integer of 0 and more), the even lines of the (3n+1)th frame, the odd lines of the (3n+2)th frame, the even lines of the (3n+2)th frame, the odd lines of the (3n+3)th frame, and the even lines of the (3n+3)th frame, the other ones are arranged in the other two of the odd lines of the 3n+1)th frame, the even lines of the (3n+1)th frame, the odd lines of the (3n+2)th frame, the even lines of the (3n+2)th frame, the odd lines of the (3n+3)th frame, and the even lines of the (3n+3)th frame, further the other ones are arranged in the remaining two lines out of the odd lines of the (3n+1)th frame, the even lines of the (3n+1)th frame, the odd lines of the (3n+2)th frame, the even lines of the (3n+2)th frame, the odd lines of the (3n+3)th frame, and the even lines of the (3n+3)th frame and the images arranged in the odd lines and the even lines of the same frame are defined as interlace images.