Patent Document ID: 10097843
Application ID: 13508739
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: receiving at an input of an encoder circuit a first input video data signal and a second input video data signal, wherein the first input video data signal is produced from a first camera and the second input video data signal is produced from a second camera, wherein the first camera and the second camera view a scene from two different angles; the encoder circuit generating, from the first input video data signal and the second input video data signal, at least one base two-dimensional image of a scene, wherein the base two-dimensional image comprises color information for pixels in the base two-dimensional image; the encoder circuit generating from the received first input video data signal and the second input video data signal, depth information for the base two-dimensional image; the encoder circuit generating from the received first input video data signal and second input video data signal transition information, wherein the transition information is representative of a width of a transition region in the base two-dimensional image, the transition region comprising a depth transition and blended pixels, wherein the blended pixels comprise blended colors of a foreground object and a background, wherein the transition information comprises a width map wherein pixels in the base two-dimensional image along a line in the transition region each have an associated non-zero value in the width map, the non-zero value defining for the depth transition a corresponding width parameter indicating a number of blended pixels in the transition region, and all other pixels in the transition region have associated zero values in the width map, the encoder circuit generating an encoded three-dimensional video data signal comprising encoded data representing the base two-dimensional image, the depth map, and the transition information; and the encoder circuit transmitting the encoded three-dimensional video data signal from an output of the encoder circuit.