Patent ID: 8395617

Claim:
A method for simultaneously displaying a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional image in a frame of a display system comprising: receiving a two-dimensional image data and a depth data both corresponding to the two-dimensional image and the three-dimensional image; encoding the two-dimensional image data and the depth data so that sub-pixels of the two-dimensional image data and the depth data which are related to the three-dimensional image have grayscale values whose least significant bits vary in a predetermined manner; receiving the encoded two-dimensional image data and the encoded depth data at a receiving side and detecting a three-dimensional display region of the frame according to variations in the gray values of the sub-pixels; obtaining a relationship between sub-pixels of the two-dimensional image data and the depth data in the three-dimensional display region; generating a corresponding front panel two-dimensional image according to a two-dimensional display region of the frame and the encoded two-dimensional image data; generating a corresponding front panel three-dimensional image and a corresponding back panel three-dimensional image by adjusting sub-pixel grayscale values of the two-dimensional image data according to corresponding sub-pixel grayscale values of the depth; generating a front panel image by overlapping the front panel three-dimensional image and the front panel two-dimensional image; and displaying the three-dimensional image in the three-dimensional display region of the frame and displaying the two-dimensional image in the two-dimensional display region of the frame.