MessageToEagle.com - Soon we'll just relax and enjoy 3D films without glasses!
Scientists at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute has developed software that will make it possible for viewers
to enjoy 3D programs without special glasses – automatically and in real-time!
This new technology enable to convert stereoscopic content – like that of off-the-shelf 3D Blu-rays – into an
autostereoscopic format.
“We take the existing two images and generate a depth map – that is to say, a map that assigns a specific
distance from the camera to each object,” Christian Riechert, research fellow at HHI said.
“From there we compute any of several intermediate views by applying depth image-based rendering techniques.
And here’s the really neat thing:
The process operates on a fully automated basis, and in real time.”
Though prototypes of these TV screens already exist, consumers will not have to wait much longer for
the market introduction of these autostereoscopic displays.
Nevertheless, the content might be a bit problematic - the 3D movies currently available on Blu-ray are
based on two different perspectives, i.e. two images, one for each eye.
However, autostereoscopic displays need five to ten views of the same scene (depending on the type).
In the future, the number will probably be even more.
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Glasses-free 3D Home Entertainment. Photo Credits: hhi.fraunhofer.de
This is because these displays have to present a three-dimensional image in such a manner that it can
be seen from different angles – indeed, there is more than one place to sit on a sofa, and you should
be able to get the same three dimensional impressions from any position
Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz Institute, HHI in Berlin
recently developed a technology that converts a Blu-ray’s existing 3D content in a manner that enables them
to be shown on autostereoscopic displays.
“We take the existing two images and generate a depth map – that is to say, a map that assigns a specific
distance from the camera to each object,” Christian Riechert, research fellow at HHI said.
“From there we compute any of several intermediate views by applying depth image-based rendering techniques.
And here’s the really neat thing: The process operates on a fully automated basis, and in real time,” he said
Previous systems were only capable of generating such depth maps at a dramatically slower pace; sometimes they
even required manual adaption.
Real-time conversion, by contrast, is like simultaneous interpretation: The viewer inserts a 3D Blu-ray disc,
gets comfortable in front of the TV screen and enjoys the movie – without the glasses.
Meanwhile, a hardware component estimates the depth map in the background and generates the requisite views.
The viewer is aware of nothing: He or she can fast forward or rewind the movie, start it, stop it – and all
with the same outstanding quality.
The flickering that could appear on the edges of objects – something that happens due to imprecise
estimations – is imperceptible here
The researchers have already finished the software that converts these data.
In the next step, the scientists, working in collaboration with industry partners, intend to port it onto
a hardware product so that it can be integrated into televisions.
Nevertheless, it will still take at least another calendar year before the technology hits department
store shelves.
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