Software out-of-focus 3D method, system, and apparatus
A method, system, and apparatus are disclosed for producing enhanced three dimensional effects. The invention emulates physical processes of focusing wherein objects in the foreground and the background are in varying degrees out-of-focus and represented differently to each of a viewer's eyes....
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| Format | Patent |
| Language | English |
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03.04.2003
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| Summary: | A method, system, and apparatus are disclosed for producing enhanced three dimensional effects. The invention emulates physical processes of focusing wherein objects in the foreground and the background are in varying degrees out-of-focus and represented differently to each of a viewer's eyes. In particular, the invention divides out-of-focus light representations so that different partitions of such a division are viewed by a viewer's right eye as compared to what is viewed by the viewer's left eye, and so that the identical in-focus representation is viewed by both eyes. Thus, the invention interposes novel processing between a determination as to what to render in a synthetically produced three dimensional space and the actual rendering thereof, wherein the novel processing produces stereoscopic views from a two dimensional view by utilizing information about the relation of light sources in the three dimensional space to the in-focus plane in the space. |
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