Television – Stereoscopic – Stereoscopic display device
Reexamination Certificate
2004-12-02
2009-02-10
Philippe, Gims (Department: 2621)
Television
Stereoscopic
Stereoscopic display device
C359S619000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07489332
ABSTRACT:
A system and method that produces a uniformly magnified three-dimensional image of a three-dimensional scene. The system and method use integral photography along with a scaling-up process for magnification. In one embodiment, an integral photograph representative of a three-dimensional scene is created using an input imaging array. The integral photograph is enlarged by a magnification factor. A uniformly magnified three-dimensional image is reconstructed using an output imaging array that has been scaled-up from the first input array by the magnification factor according to the scaling-up process. In a second embodiment, no input array is used. Instead, a prepared integral frame representative of the three-dimensional scene is presented for magnification. In an embodiment, the integral frame is drawn, printed, or electronically prepared by geometric projection with the same properties as though a magnified three-dimensional scene were to be presented to a virtual imaging array (i.e., using ray tracing). This embodiment may be used to produce a magnified three-dimensional cartoon. Use of the scaling-up process permits the use of generalized imaging arrays composed of generalized imaging elements, where adjacent imaging elements may or may not touch each other.
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