Three-dimensional image program and printer

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9342768-B2
Application number	US-201414449897-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 1, 2014
Priority date	Aug 2, 2013
Publication date	May 17, 2016
Grant date	May 17, 2016

Abstract

A virtual displaying method of a three-dimensional image for displaying at least one image of a plurality of images configuring a virtual three-dimensional image providing a three-dimensional visualization through a lens layer having a plurality of lenses includes applying a deterioration processing to the at least one image, and displaying, in a display section, an obtained image by the deterioration processing.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A virtual displaying method of a three-dimensional image for displaying at least one image of a plurality of images, the virtual displaying method comprising:
applying a deterioration processing, by a processor, to image data configuring the at least one image of the plurality of the images that configure a virtual three-dimensional image providing a three-dimensional visualization through a lens layer having a plurality of lenses, the image data including color information and α value that represents a transparency in each pixel, the applying of the deterioration process including a semi-transmissive processing to increase a level of the transparency of the image data of the at least one image; and
displaying, in a single display, the at least one image obtained by the deterioration processing by the processor.

2. The virtual displaying method of the three-dimensional image according to claim 1 , wherein
the displaying of the at least one image includes displaying at least more than or equal to two images in the plurality of the images that include a main image and the at least one image that is obtained by deterioration process, and
the deterioration processing includes composing the at least one image and the main image such that the main image is deteriorated.

3. The virtual displaying method of the three-dimensional image according to claim 2 , wherein
the semi-transmissive processing is applied to the at least one image, and
the deterioration processing further includes a blurring processing applied to the at least one image and the main image.

4. The virtual displaying method of the three-dimensional image according to claim 3 , wherein
the virtual three-dimensional image is a change image that changes a plurality of the images depending on an angle viewing through the lens layer, and
the deteriorating of the at least one image includes increasing levels of the transparency for the plurality of the images that include the at least one image and the main image, as a disparity relative to the main image increases.

5. The virtual displaying method of the three-dimensional image according to claim 1 , wherein
the displaying of the at least one image includes previewing the virtual three-dimensional image in the single display before printing in a printer, and
the applying of the deterioration processing includes, when a print mode in which the virtual three-dimensional image is printed in the printer is a high image quality mode, lowering a deterioration degree of the image in comparison with a low image quality mode.

6. The virtual displaying method of the three-dimensional image according to claim 2 , wherein
the applying of the deterioration processing includes applying the deterioration processing to, in a plurality of pixels configuring the at least one image, a pixel of which a pixel value exceeds a threshold value in a darker side in a print color system in which the at least one image is color-converted, and composing the pixel after the deterioration processing are composed with the main image.

7. The virtual displaying method of the three-dimensional image according to claim 3 , wherein
the virtual three-dimensional image is configured by arranging division compression images of each of the plurality of the images along an arrangement direction of the lenses, and
the applying of the deterioration processing includes applying the deterioration processing to, in the at least one image, a part corresponding to an end part of a division compression image arranged adjacent to a division compression image of the main image, the end part being close to the division compression image of the main image side, and composing the part after the deterioration processing is composed with the main image.

8. The virtual displaying method of the three-dimensional image according to claim 2 , wherein
the virtual three-dimensional image is a change image including the plurality of the images, and
the applying of the deterioration processing includes, in the plurality of the images configuring the change image, when one image of which a division compression image is arranged at an end of a lens is the main image, applying the deterioration processing to an image corresponding to an adjacent division compression image arranged in an end of an adjacent side in a lens adjacent to the lens, and the image after the deterioration processing is composed with the main image.

9. The virtual displaying method of the three-dimensional image according to claim 2 , wherein
the virtual three-dimensional image virtualizes the three-dimensional image drawn by dots in a plurality of sizes, and
the applying of the deterioration processing includes applying the semi-transmissive processing that reduces a transparency, in comparison with other parts, to a part that includes the largest dot in the plurality of the sizes in the at least one image.

10. The virtual displaying method of the three dimensional image according to claim 1 , wherein
the virtual three-dimensional image is a stereoscopic image including an image for left eye and an image for right eye as the plurality of the images, and
the deterioration processing is applied to at least one of the image for left eye and the image for right eye, which is not the main image to be displayed in the single display in the image for left eye and the image for right eye, and the at least one of the image for left eye and the image for right eye which the deterioration processing has been applied to and the main image are composed.

11. The virtual displaying method of the three-dimensional image according to claim 10 , wherein
the lens layer is a lenticular lens, and
the virtual displaying method further comprises, before the applying of the deterioration processing or after the displaying of the at least one image, position-adjusting a first stereoscopic object and a second stereoscopic object in a lens longitudinal direction until a displacement amount between the first stereoscopic object included in the image for left eye and the second stereoscopic object included in the image for right eye in the lens longitudinal direction is fit within an acceptable range when the displacement amount exceeds the acceptable range.

12. The virtual displaying method of the three-dimensional image according to claim 11 , further comprising trimming by removing a part that does not form the virtual three-dimensional image in the plurality of the images after the position-adjusting.

13. The virtual displaying method of the three-dimensional image according to claim 11 , wherein
the position-adjusting includes position-adjusting the first stereoscopic object and the second stereoscopic object based on an instruction from an operating section operated by a user.

14. The virtual displaying method of the three-dimensional image according to claim 11 , wherein
the position-adjusting includes calculating the displacement amount of the first and second stereoscopic objects in the lens longitudinal direction from a position of each of the first and second stereoscopic objects obtained by performing a characteristic extraction to the image for left eye and the image for right eye, and position-adjusting the image for left eye and the image for right eye in the lens longitudinal direction until the displacement amount is fit in the acceptable range.

15. The virtual displaying method of the three-dimensional image according to claim 11 , further comprising adjusting a specific image that is a part in the plurality of images configuring the virtual three-dimensional image,

Assignees

• Seiko Epson Corp

Inventors

• Nakano Tomoyuki
• Suzuki Katsuhito
• Shirotori Hiroshi

Classifications

• G02B30/34

  Stereoscopes providing a stereoscopic pair of separated images corresponding to parallactically displaced views of the same object, e.g. three-dimensional [3D] slide viewers · CPC title

• G03B35/00

  Stereoscopic photography · CPC title

• G03B35/24

  using apertured or refractive resolving means on screens or between screen and eye · CPC title

• H04N1/40093 Primary

  Modification of content of picture, e.g. retouching (geometric modifications H04N1/387) · CPC title

• G03B25/02

  with interposed lenticular or line screen · CPC title