Patent ID: 8885721

Claim:
A method of encoding images comprising: receiving an image with an image pattern comprising a checkerboard arrangement of pixels from two channels of a stereoscopic view; classifying the disparity of regions in the image as being one of high disparity, low disparity and zero disparity, wherein the disparity is determined by at least one of bandpass filtering the image patterns and computing distortion, wherein the distortion is computed by comparing original pre-image pattern images to the images represented in the image pattern after being decoded, wherein the amount of disparity comprises at least one of an amount of estimated motion in corresponding regions of the images, and an amount of illumination change in corresponding regions of the images; turning off or negatively biasing an encoding feature of an encoding process for regions of an image pattern based on the disparity classification, when the regions include an amount of disparity in the represented images of the same frame such that the amount of disparity in the represented images would result in cross-contamination between the represented images if encoded with the encoding feature.