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7440585 Autonomous vehicle and motion control therefor  
There are provided an autonomous vehicle, and an apparatus and method for estimating the motion of the autonomous vehicle and detecting three-dimensional (3D) information of an object appearing in...
7417664 Stereoscopic image picking up and display system based upon optical axes cross-point information  
A stereoscopic video image pick-up and display system having a stereoscopic video image pick-up device including two video image pick-ups for outputting video information from the pick-ups; a...
7262789 Method of creating a virtual window  
The systems and methods described herein include, among other things, a technique for calibrating the outputs of multiple sensors, such as CCD devices, that have overlapping fields of view and...
7242422 Circuit and method for decoding color code of a 3D display  
A circuit and a method for decoding a color code of a 3D display. The color code decoding circuit is built into an on-screen display of a circuit in a display. The color code decoding circuit has...
7139424 Stereoscopic image characteristics examination system  
A stereo camera and an examination screen having a pattern based on grid lines are arranged at prescribed positions relative to each other. The stereo camera photographs the examination screen to...
7116323 Method of hidden surface reconstruction for creating accurate three-dimensional images converted from two-dimensional images  
An exemplary method of reconstructing a hidden surface area in an image includes the steps of: identifying a separation pixel gap in an image resulting from a repositioning of image pixels to...
7084841 Method and apparatus for the presentation of three-dimensional images  
There is disclosed a method and apparatus for the presentation of three-dimensional images, where light beams with appropriate intensity and optionally with appropriate color are projected in...
RE38933 Method and circuit for converting the image format of three-dimensional electronic images produced with line polarization  
A method and circuit for converting the image format of three-dimensional electronic images produced with line polarization wherein, given that television pictures are transmitted with different...
6924833 Multi-person stereo display system  
The multi-person stereo display system permits several independent viewers to see different stereo images on a single projection surface. This is accomplished through the innovative use of video...
6909802 Image-correspondence position detection device, distance measuring device and apparatus using the same  
An image-correspondence position detection device comprising an extractor 12 for extracting a sampling image of specific size from a pair of images, correlation calculator 114 for generating a...
6839081 Virtual image sensing and generating method and apparatus  
An image sensing apparatus includes an image input unit ( 100 ) for inputting an image, a detection unit ( 200 ) for detecting a state of movement of the image input unit ( 100 ) in an image input...
6833858 Image input apparatus  
In an image input apparatus, a position detecting part is arranged to detect the positions of a variator lens group and a focusing-and-compensating lens group of a photo-taking optical system, and...
6784917 Digital broadcasting system  
A digital broadcasting system is obtained having simple facilities and circuit structure and capable of efficiently transmitting and receiving synchronized pictures and displaying them without...
6781618 Hand-held 3D vision system  
A 3D model of a scene is constructed by acquiring first images of a scene having unknown characteristics with a first camera. Corresponding second images of a another scene having known...
6757086 Hologram forming apparatus and method, and hologram  
The image data generator 1 produces image data for recording into a holographic stereogram. The image data generator 1 combines a stereo image model being at least a part of a three-dimensional...
6757009 Apparatus for detecting the presence of an occupant in a motor vehicle  
A motor vehicle control system includes a pair of cameras for producing first and second images of a passenger area. A distance processor determines distances that a plurality of features in the...
6704042 Video processing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium  
When stereoscopic video data is distributed through a network, some terminal cannot process the distributed stereoscopic video data because the format of the data does not correspond to the...
6674463 Technique for autostereoscopic image, film and television acquisition and display by multi-aperture multiplexing  
The method involves using multiple aperture multiplexing, with display of image composite in fast sequences such that viewer does not detect changes. The method involves using a screen and an...
6507358 Multi-lens image pickup apparatus  
There is disclosed a multi-lens image pickup apparatus provided with plural image pickup systems and an image display means and adapted to synthesize the plural images picked up respectively with...
6504569 2-D extended image generation from 3-D data extracted from a video sequence  
A method of generating a 2-D extended image from a video sequence representing a natural 3-D scene first determines motion parameters for a camera that recorded the scene with respect to a...
6476850 Apparatus for the generation of a stereoscopic display  
An apparatus for the generation of a full-spectrum stereoscopic display. The system uses a flat, masking screen comprised of a plurality of regularly spaced, vertical apertures arranged in front...
6466618 Resolution improvement for multiple images  
A system constructs a high resolution image from a plurality of low resolution images where each of the low resolution images includes a plurality of color planes. The system receives the plurality...
6456432 STEREOSCOPIC 3-D VIEWING SYSTEM WITH PORTABLE ELECTRO-OPTICAL VIEWING GLASSES AND SHUTTER-STATE CONTROL SIGNAL TRANSMITTER HAVING MULTIPLE MODES OF OPERATION FOR STEREOSCOPIC VIEWING OF 3-D IMAGES DISPLAYED IN DIFFERENT STEREOSCOPIC IMAGE FORMATS  
The present invention relates to a system and method of viewing pairs of perspective images of 3-D objects (i.e. stereoscopic image pairs) displayed from a CRT display surface in a time-multiplexed...
6448952 Stereoscopic image display device  
A device for displaying a stereoscopic image in which cross-talk is suppressed. A left eye image and a right eye image alternately displayed on a liquid crystal display panel are viewed through an...
6445366 Stereoscopic display  
A thin stereoscopic display which enables plural persons to simultaneously observe stereoscopic images includes a color liquid crystal plate for displaying stereo-pairs composed of left and right...
6384859 Methods for creating an image for a three-dimensional display, for calculating depth information and for image processing using the depth information  
A method is proposed for automatically obtaining depth. information from a 2-D motion image, so as to create an image for a 3-D display. Further, methods are proposed for selecting appropriate...
6377625 Method and apparatus for generating steroscopic image using MPEG data  
A stereoscopic image generation apparatus generates a stereoscopic image using MPEG encoded data containing I, B and P pictures. A picture extractor extracts each picture data from the MPEG encoded...
6373518 Image correction apparatus for stereo camera  
An image correction apparatus for a stereo camera which corrects optical positional deviations in images taken by the stereo camera, comprising: means for performing interpolation on mutual...
6356297 Method and apparatus for displaying panoramas with streaming video  
In this invention streaming video data is embedded within a panoramic image for display. The invention teaches a method and system for displaying an image of a scene of interest from a stored...
6304286 Stereoscopic display apparatus for generating images in accordance with an observer's viewing position  
A stereoscopic display apparatus such that when an viewing point position of an observer is moved, a stereoscopic image similar to that observed at the moved position is obtained. A plurality of...
6297844 Video safety curtain  
A three-dimensional (3-D) machine-vision safety-solution involving a method and apparatus for performing high-integrity, high efficiency machine vision. The machine vision safety solution converts...
6275253 Stereographic image compression with image moment normalization  
A stereographic image compressor (100) includes an Image Size and Position Unit (ISPU) (101) that resizes and repositions a pair of images which are indicative, respectively, of first and second...
6236428 Multi-eye image sensing and recording and reproduction apparatus  
Timing signal generators 24R and 24L, simultaneously initialized, synchronize image-sensing devices 21R and 21L with each other. Video signal processors 23R and 23L process the synchronized image...
6230322 Music channel graphical user interface  
The present invention relates to an entertainment system and method for selectively adjusting an audio parameter of a currently broadcast audio program. The system comprises a display monitor,...
6215516 Method and apparatus for monoscopic to stereoscopic image conversion  
A method and apparatus for converting a monoscopic image with one perspective to a stereoscopic image with two perspectives is provided. A foreground object is identified and outlined. The depth of...
6181304 Convertible right eye/left eye monocular head mounted display system  
A monocular head mounted display system that is convertible between a right eye display system and a left eye display system includes a generally symmetrical frame. A flexible support arm moveably...
6163337 Multi-view point image transmission method and multi-view point image display method  
A multi-viewpoint image transmission and display method is characterized by that in transmitting images with two or more viewpoints, distance or parallax limits in the images are appended for...
6157351 Three dimensional display on personal computer  
A system which can automatically display either regular two dimensional images or three dimensional images: The system includes, a processor which executes a program, a display, eye glasses which...
6144701 Stereoscopic video coding and decoding apparatus and method  
An apparatus and method that applies an affine transformation to achieve steroscopic coding of video.
6141035 Video signal processing and apparatus therefor  
When the corresponding position of each pixel in stereo video pair is searched, a fixed pixel is set in one side video and the corresponding pixel is set in the other side video. Then, a window is...
6111597 Stereo image forming apparatus  
Rendering is executed under conditions corresponding to the distance of a target object to obtain stereo display data, by preliminarily controlling its conditions such as the position or...
6111596 Gain and offset correction for efficient stereoscopic coding and improved display  
A method for increasing compression efficiency of a stereoscopic image encoder employed for compressively encoding first and second signals representing respective first and second views of a...
6108029 Dual-mode 2D/3D display system  
A dual-mode display system for 2D viewing and includes an image display device and an LCD panel. The image displaying device is used to show a regular 2D image for 2D viewing and to show an...
6104425 Method and apparatus for transmitting television signals, method and apparatus for receiving television signals, and method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving television signals  
A method of transmitting TV signals comprises transmitting three-dimensional information representing three-dimensional shapes of a stereoscopic object from a plurality of view points, and image...
6078352 Stereoscopic viewing device and stereoscopic viewing method  
This invention concerns a stereoscopic viewing device and a stereoscopic viewing method, and makes it possible to provide a satisfactory stereoscopic image without increasing of the quantity of...
6075556 Three-dimensional image coding by merger of left and right images  
A method is disclosed, for encoding a signal with a three dimensional image sequence using a series of left and right images. Each image in the left image series is a picture formed by...
6075555 Method and apparatus for image enhancement  
Apparatus and method for image enhancement in which an autostereoscopic image, comprising a different perspective view of an object field for each eye of an observer is, typically provided. The...
6072831 Rate control for stereoscopic digital video encoding  
Rate control in a stereoscopic digital video communication system is accomplished by modifying the quantization level of P or B-frame data in the enhancement layer depending on whether the frame is...
6055274 Method and apparatus for compressing multi-view video  
The invention in one embodiment is an apparatus for compressing multi-view video data from a first view and a second view. The apparatus comprises a first encoder receiving a first set of video...
6043838 View offset estimation for stereoscopic video coding  
In a stereoscopic video transmission system, where an enhancement layer image is disparity predicted using a lower layer images, the lower layer image is made to more closely match the enhancement...
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