Patent ID: 7817166

Claim:
A general purpose computer comprising one or more programmable control devices programmed to perform a windowing system method for displaying stereo content, the method comprising: obtaining first content for a first display window by one of the one or more programmable control devices, the first content having a stereo portion, blue-line information corresponding to the stereo portion, and a non-stereo portion, each of the stereo and non-stereo portions having associated transparency information; obtaining second content for a second display window by one of the one or more programmable control devices, the second content associated with transparency information; and generating a composited image by generating a blue-line for the content of the first display window; placing the blue-line in a front-most layer of the composited image; and blending the first content and the second content in accordance with their associated transparency information so as to maintain stereo presentation of the first content in the first display window utilizing the blue-line information even in the event that the first display window is at least partially occluded by the second display window.