Patent ID: 8704932

Claim:
A method for processing video, the method comprising: performing by one or more processors or circuits: receiving left and right 3D media frames; searching for redundant or correlated pixel structures within a bounded search area of the left or the right 3D media frames relative to a corresponding opposite side of the left or the right 3D media frame; estimating displacement of pixel structures in the left and right 3D media frames relative to the corresponding opposite side of the left and right 3D media frames; determining parallax vectors based on pixel structure displacement in the left 3D media frame and the right 3D media frame; and generating noise reduced left and right 3D media frames utilizing parallax compensation of the left and right 3D media frames by blending the left 3D media frame with the parallax compensated right 3D media frame to produce the noise reduced left 3D media frame and by blending the right 3D media frame with the parallax compensated left 3D media frame to produce the noise reduced right 3D media frame.