Method and devices for displaying stereoscopic images

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11442263-B2
Application number	US-201716074247-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 24, 2017
Priority date	Feb 4, 2016
Publication date	Sep 13, 2022
Grant date	Sep 13, 2022

Abstract

Various approaches in which an image-recording parameter is varied between a plurality of images of an object and a stereo image pair is displayed on the basis of the images recorded thus are described. Here, in particular, the image-recording parameter can be a focal plane or an illumination direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for presenting stereo images, comprising:
recording a plurality of images of an object by an image-recording device, wherein an image-recording parameter is varied over the plurality of images,
determining a first result image and a second result image by a computer device, wherein at least two images of the plurality of images are combined in each case for calculating the first result image and the second result image, wherein the first result image and the second result image form a stereo image pair for presenting stereo images,
wherein the image-recording parameter comprises an illumination direction such that the plurality of images are recorded with different illumination directions, and
wherein determining the first result image and the second result image comprises:
calculating a first phase-contrast image, which has an increased phase contrast in a first direction, and a second phase-contrast image, which has an increased phase contrast in a second direction that differs from the first direction, based on the plurality of images;
calculating the first result image based on the first phase-contrast image and the second phase-contrast image; and
calculating the second result image based on the first phase-contrast image and the second phase-contrast image.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying the first result image for a left eye of a user and the second result image for a right eye of the user.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the image-recording parameter comprises a focal plane such that the plurality of images are recorded with different defocusing.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
predetermining an observation perspective, wherein the first and second result image is determined on the basis of the observation perspective.

5. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein recording the plurality of images comprises recording a first plurality of images with illumination directions in a first illumination direction range and recording a second plurality of images with illumination directions in a second illumination direction range that differs from the first illumination direction range, and
wherein the first result image is calculated on the basis of the first plurality of images and the second result image is calculated on the basis of the second plurality of images.

6. The method of claim 1 ,
wherein the first result image and the second result image are calculated as a phase-contrast image in each case.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
predetermining a stereo angle, wherein determining the first and second result image is effected in such a way that the perspectives of the first and the second result image differ by the predetermined stereo angle.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein perspectives of the first result image and of the second result image differ by an angle which lies between 11° and 16°.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising carrying out a digital image improvement on the plurality of images, the first result image and/or the second result image.

10. An apparatus, comprising:
an image-recording device for recording a plurality of images of an object, wherein the image-recording device is configured to vary an image-recording parameter over the plurality of images, and
a computing device for determining a first result image and a second result image on the basis of the plurality of images, wherein at least two images of the plurality of images are combined in each case for the first result image and the second result image such that the first result image and the second result image form a stereo image pair,
wherein the image-recording parameter comprises an illumination direction such that a multiplicity of images are recorded with different illumination directions, and
wherein determining the first result image and second result image comprises:
calculating a first phase-contrast image, which has an increased phase contrast in a first direction, and a second phase-contrast image, which has an increased phase contrast in a second direction that differs from the first direction, based on the multiplicity of images;
calculating the first result image based on the first phase-contrast image and the second phase-contrast image; and
calculating the second result image based on the first phase-contrast image and the second phase-contrast image.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the image-recording device comprises a microscope device.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 , further comprising a stereoscopic display apparatus for displaying the first result image for a left eye of an observer and the second result image for a right eye of an observer.

13. The apparatus of claim 10 ,
wherein the image-recording parameter comprises an illumination direction such that a multiplicity of images are recorded with different illumination directions, and
wherein recording the multiplicity of images comprises recording a first multiplicity of images with illumination directions in a first illumination direction range and recording a second multiplicity of images with illumination directions in a second illumination direction range that differs from the first illumination direction range, wherein the first result image is determined on the basis of the first multiplicity of images and the second result image is determined on the basis of the second multiplicity of images.

14. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first result image and the second result image comprise intensity images.

15. The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the first result image and the second result image comprise intensity images.

Assignees

• Zeiss Carl Microscopy Gmbh

Inventors

• Husemann Christoph
• Stoppe Lars
• Teuber Tanja
• Omlor Lars
• Wicker Kai
• Geissler Enrico
• Lakshmanan Senthil Kumar

Classifications

• H04N13/189

  Recording image signals; Reproducing recorded image signals · CPC title

• G02B21/14

  affording illumination for phase-contrast observation · CPC title

• G02B21/367 Primary

  providing an output produced by processing a plurality of individual source images, e.g. image tiling, montage, composite images, depth sectioning, image comparison · CPC title

• G02B21/22

  Stereoscopic arrangements · CPC title

• H04N13/302

  for viewing without the aid of special glasses, i.e. using autostereoscopic displays · CPC title