Patent ID: 8451320

Claim:
A method of encoding images, comprising: tessellating a left eye image and a right eye image, said left eye image and right eye image corresponding to a left and right eye image pair; performing transposition operations on said tessellated left and right eye images using transposition offsets which maximize redundancy between transposed tessellated left and right eye images generated by said transposition operations; generating, from the transposed tessellated left and right eye images, a differential map, said differential map providing information indicating the difference between a reference one of the transposed tessellated left and right eye images and a non-reference one of the transposed tessellated left and right eye images; performing a first compression operation on the reference one of the tessellated left and right eye images to generate a compressed reference image; performing a second compression operation on the differential map to generate a compressed differential map; and performing at least one of: i) storing the compressed reference image and compressed differential map and ii) transmitting the compressed reference image and compressed differential map.