Television – Stereoscopic – Picture signal generator
Patent
1996-01-23
1998-11-10
Casler, Brian
Television
Stereoscopic
Picture signal generator
348 51, 348 54, H04N 1302
Patent
active
058351337
ABSTRACT:
A mechanism and method for recording stereo video with standard camera system electronics and a uniquely adapted optical assembly is disclosed. The optical assembly comprises left and right optical channels disposed to capture and project separate left and right images onto a single image sensor such that the boundary between the projected images is sharply delineated with no substantial overlap or gap. The viewpoints of the left and right optical channels are separated by a distance, d, such that the captured images are differentiated to produce a stereo image pair. By proper disposition of the left and right optical channels, stereo image pairs exhibiting full stereo overlap without keystone distortion are obtained. One image of the stereo pair is produced for visualization by the left eye and the other image is produced for visualization by the right eye. Alternatively, the images can be interrogated by a computer system for generating three dimensional position data. The image sensor is scanned in a standard fashion such that the left and right images are sampled by the video sampling circuitry of the camera unit at substantially the same time. In one mode, a pair of anamorphic lenses compress the left and right images along the axis of the image sensor scan lines so that each video field represents a stereo pair of images at a substantially unity anamorphic ratio and at an aspect ratio substantially equal to that of the image sensor. In a another mode, a conventional (non-distorting) lens is utilized and each video frame represents a pair of images having an aspect ratio equal to one-half that of the image sensor. A stereo playback mechanism and method is also disclosed.
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Loucks Bryan E.
Moreton Henry P.
Casler Brian
Dion Luanne P.
Silicon Graphics Inc.
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