Patent ID: 8384766

Claim:
A system for processing a compressed image stream of a stereoscopic image stream, said compressed image stream having a plurality of frames in a first format, each frame consisting of a merged image formed by juxtaposing a sampled image frame of a left image and a sampled image frame of a right image, each sampled image frame having half a number of original pixels forming a staggered quincunx pattern in which original pixels surround missing pixels, said system comprising: a receiver for receiving said compressed image stream; a decompressing module in communication with said receiver for decompressing said compressed image stream; a frame buffer connected to said decompressing module for receiving and storing frames of said merged image of said decompressed image stream; a serializing unit for reading pixels of said frames stored in said frame buffer and outputting a pixel stream comprising pixels of a left frame and pixels of a right frame; a stereoscopic image processor configured to receive said pixel stream, to buffer said pixels, to perform interpolation in order to reconstruct missing pixels of each of said left and right images using only original pixels of the respective one of said left and right images and to output a reconstructed left pixel stream and a reconstructed right pixel stream, wherein said interpolating comprises, for each missing pixel: calculating an edge-dependent weighting factor using values of said original pixels including values of original pixels other than those immediately surrounding said missing pixel; and calculating an interpolated value for said missing pixel using original pixels and said weighting factor; a display signal generator receiving said stereoscopic pixel stream to provide an output display signal.