Method and device for correcting distortion errors due to accommodation effect in stereoscopic display

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10110872-B2
Application number	US-201314394648-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 8, 2013
Priority date	Apr 19, 2012
Publication date	Oct 23, 2018
Grant date	Oct 23, 2018

Abstract

The invention concerns a method and a device for correcting distortion errors in a 3D content viewed by an observer on a screen. The method comprises the step of determining a rendered roundness factor (rrf) of a pinhole model projected cylinder, estimating a rendered roundness factor table depending on the defined distance of the observer to the screen and the disparity values of objects of the image, determining for the observer a disparity transform function (TD) as a function of the estimated rendered roundness factor table and modifying the object disparity values using the disparity transform so that a perceived roundness factor of one is provided.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for correcting distortion errors in a 3D content viewed by an observer on a screen comprising:
determining a rendered roundness factor for the observer of the 3D content depending of a defined distance of the observer to the screen and of the disparity associated with said 3D content; and
determining for the observer a disparity transform function being defined as a function of the determined rendered roundness factor, the function taking into account said defined distance, whatever a value of the defined distance is, so that the disparity values of all objects of the 3D content are corrected for obtaining a perceived roundness factor of one.

2. The method for correcting distortion errors in a 3D content as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the parameters to modify the disparity values are directly implemented in a 3D creation software.

3. The method for correcting distortion errors in a 3D content as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the rendered roundness factor corresponds to a ratio being equal to the object width divided by the object depth, for a round object.

4. The method for correcting distortion errors in a 3D content as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the disparity values are extracted from a disparity map associated with the 3D content.

5. The method for correcting distortion errors in a 3D content as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the disparity values are calculated from parameters of the observer associated with the 3D content.

6. The method for correcting distortion errors in a 3D content as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the disparity and distance to the screen of an object of the 3D content is defined as the average of disparity and average of distance to the screen of each pixel of the object.

7. A device for correcting distortion errors in a 3D content viewed by an observer on a screen, comprising:
a memory; and
at least one processor coupled to the memory, the at least one processor being configured to:
determine a rendered roundness factor for the observer of the 3D content depending on the defined distance of the observer to the screen and on disparity; and
determine for the observer a disparity transform function being defined as a function of the determined rendered roundness factor, the function taking into account said defined distance, whatever a value of the defined distance is, so that the disparity values of all objects of the 3D content are corrected for obtaining a perceived roundness factor of one.

8. The device for correcting distortion errors in a 3D content as claimed in claim 7 wherein the at least one processor is further configured to divide a cylinder width by a cylinder depth for a round object, when it determines the rendered roundness factor.

9. The device for correcting distortion errors in a 3D content as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to extract the disparity values from a disparity map associated with the 3D content.

10. The device for correcting distortion errors in a 3D content as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to compute the disparity values from parameters of the observer associated with the 3D content.

11. The device for correcting distortion errors in a 3D content as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the disparity and distance to the screen of an object of the 3D content is defined as the average of disparity and average of distance to the screen of each pixel of the object.

Assignees

• Thomson Licensing
• Interdigital Madison Patent Holdings

Inventors

• Vienne Cyril
• Blonde Laurent
• Doyen Didier

Classifications

• H04N13/128 Primary

  Adjusting depth or disparity · CPC title

• H04N13/144

  for flicker reduction · CPC title

• H04N13/122 Primary

  Improving the three-dimensional [3D] impression of stereoscopic images by modifying image signal contents, e.g. by filtering or adding monoscopic depth cues (H04N13/128 takes precedence) · CPC title