Patent ID: 6977629

Claim:
Method for processing video frames for stereoscopic display on a display device having a plurality of luminous elements, in each case one or more of them corresponding to a pixel of a video frame, wherein each video frame includes a left and a right picture, and the frame period of the video frame is divided into a plurality of sub-fields during which the luminous elements can be activated for light emission in pulses corresponding to a sub-field code word which is used for brightness control and wherein for corresponding pixels left and right picture sub-field code words are determined which have identical entries for a number of sub-fields called common sub-fields and the remaining sub-fields of each picture are called specific sub-fields characterized in that, the common sub-fields are duplicated and positioned twice in the frame period with respect to the order of presentation, namely behind the specific sub-fields of the left picture and behind the specific sub-fields of the right picture.