Patent ID: 8502862

Claim:
A method for generating a stereoscopic frame comprising: obtaining one or more two dimensional frames of a two dimensional multimedia presentation, each two dimensional frame comprising one or more layers comprising a portion of the two dimensional frame; generating one or more left eye layers and one or more right eye layers for the one or more layers, wherein one or more of the left eye layers are horizontally offset from a respective one or more of the right eye layers; combining the one or more generated left eye layers into a composite left eye frame; combining the one or more generated right eye layers into a composite right eye frame, wherein the composite left eye frame and the composite right eye frame comprise a stereoscopic frame; and determining a first pixel offset for the one or more layers, the pixel offset providing the horizontal offset to achieve stereoscopic depth of the one or more layers in the stereoscopic frame; wherein the generating operation further comprises: shifting a first left eye layer of the one or more left eye layers in a first direction in relation to a respective first right eye layer based on the pixel offset to perceptually position the first left eye layer and the respective first right eye layer in a background of the stereoscopic frame; and shifting a second left eye layer for the one or more left eye layers in a second direction, opposite the first direction, in relation to a respective second right eye layer based on a second pixel offset to perceptually position the second left eye layer and the respective second right eye layer in a foreground of the stereoscopic frame.