Compatible stereoscopic video delivery

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9712801-B2
Application number	US-201514941992-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 16, 2015
Priority date	Jul 20, 2008
Publication date	Jul 18, 2017
Grant date	Jul 18, 2017

Abstract

Stereoscopic images are subsampled and placed in a “checkerboard” pattern in an image. The image is encoded in a monoscopic video format. The monoscopic video is transmitted to a device where the “checkerboard” is decoded. Portions of the checkerboard (e.g., “black” portions) are used to reconstruct one of the stereoscopic images and the other portion of the checkerboard (e.g., “white” portions) are used to reconstruct the other image. The subsamples are, for example, taken from the image in a location coincident to the checkerboard position in which the subsamples are encoded.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of decoding with a processor a multiplexed image in a sequence of images, the method comprising:
receiving a coded bitstream comprising a coded image in a multiplexed format, the coded image comprising samples of a first image and samples of a second image, wherein the multiplexed format is determined using SEI messaging in the coded bitstream;
decoding with the processor the coded image to generate a decoded image;
demultiplexing, based on the multiplexed format, with the processor the decoded image to generate decoded samples of the first image and decoded samples of the second image, wherein the decoded samples of the first image and the second image are arranged in accordance with the multiplexed format in alternating order within even lines of the decoded image and in the opposite order in odd lines of the decoded image, wherein the decoded samples of the first image represent samples of the first image in a first checkerboard pattern and the decoded samples of the second image represent samples of the second image in a second checkerboard pattern;
upsampling with the processor the decoded samples of the first image to generate a first output image; and
upsampling with the processor the decoded samples of the second image to generate a second output image.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein sampling an image with even and odd pixel columns in a first checkerboard pattern comprises:
on even rows, sampling only the even columns of the image; and
on odd rows sampling only the odd columns of the image.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein sampling an image with even and odd pixel columns in a second checkerboard pattern comprises:
on even rows, sampling only the odd columns of the image; and
on odd rows sampling only the even columns of the image.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the decoded samples of the second image represent samples of the second image in the first checkerboard pattern.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first output image and the second output image represent two views of a stereoscopic image.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the coded image is encoded according to at least one of a Blu-Ray compatible video format, a DVD compatible format, and an ATSC compatible video format.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the multiplexed format alternates between a first and a second multiplexed format, wherein under the first multiplexed format the first output image represents a left view of a stereoscopic image and the second output image represents a right view of the stereoscopic image and under the second multiplexed format the first output image represents the right view of the stereoscopic image and the second output image represents the left view of the stereoscopic image.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer-executable instruction for executing a method with one or more processors in accordance with claim 1 .

9. A method for encoding a sequence if video images with an encoder, the method comprising:
accessing a first image and a second image;
subsampling the first image according to a first checkerboard sampling pattern to generate samples of the first image;
subsampling the second image according to a second checkerboard sampling pattern to generate samples of the second image;
multiplexing the samples of the first image with the samples of the second image to generate a multiplexed image into a multiplexed format, wherein in the multiplexed image the samples of the first image and the samples of the second image are arranged in accordance with the multiplexed format in alternating order within even lines of the multiplexed image and in the opposite order in odd lines of the multiplexed image; and
encoding the multiplexed image in the multiplexed format to generate a coded output image to be included in a coded bitstream, wherein the multiplexed format is determined by a recipient system using SEI messaging in the coded bitstream.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein sampling an image with even and odd pixel columns in a first checkerboard pattern comprises:
on even rows, sampling only the even columns of the image; and
on odd rows sampling only the odd columns of the image.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein sampling an image with even and odd pixel columns in a second checkerboard pattern comprises:
on even rows, sampling only the odd columns of the image; and
on odd rows sampling only the even columns of the image.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein the first image and the second image represent two views of a stereoscopic image.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein samples of the second image are generated by subsampling the second image according to the first checkerboard pattern.

Assignees

• Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp

Inventors

• Husak Walter J
• Ruhoff David
• Tourapis Alexandros
• Leontaris Athanasios

Classifications

• H04N13/161 Primary

  Encoding, multiplexing or demultiplexing different image signal components (for multi-view video sequence encoding H04N19/597) · CPC title

• H04N13/139

  Format conversion, e.g. of frame-rate or size · CPC title

• H04N19/59

  involving spatial sub-sampling or interpolation, e.g. alteration of picture size or resolution · CPC title

• H04N19/60

  using transform coding · CPC title

• H04N13/194

  Transmission of image signals · CPC title