Patent ID: 8657439

Claim:
A method for generating modified video, comprising: (1) acquiring a source video comprised of a sequence of 2D frames; (2) determining a value for an inter-ocular distance of the viewer and factors for a display resolution and a video frame speed; (3) obtaining an image frame from the source video that includes: (a) two or more motion vectors that describe motion in the image frame where each of the motion vectors is associated with a region of the image frame; and (b) one or more values that describe the luminance in the image frame; (4) calculating a single parameter for each of the following: (a) a lateral speed of the image frame, using the two or more motion vectors; (b) a direction of motion of the image frame, using the two or more motion vectors; and (c) a luminance of the image frame, using the one or more luminance values; (5) generating a deformation value by applying an algorithm that uses the inter-ocular distance, both of the factors, and at least two of the parameters; (6) applying the deformation value to the image frame to produce a modified image frame; and (7) displaying the modified image frame to a viewer; wherein the direction of motion and velocity of motion parameters in the calculation step are calculated only from the motion vectors input along with the image frame and the luminance parameter is calculated only from the one or more luminance values input along with the image frame.