P3D 2D to 3D (Using Batteries)

["John N. Dukes" <Zytel-Radak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can envision one possible--to be sure imperfect--inline, realtime
conversion system for converting TV or video signals electronically from 2D
to 3D, although I mention it hesitantly, for obvious reasons.

This might have been a bit heavy on signal processing and/or storage up
until recently, but I'd guess that it could easily be brought in for a very
few hundred dollars now. Like many of the systems we've discussed it would
depend upon motion and like most things in 3D it's probably not new. But...

Let's say we have continuing video FIFO (first in first out) frame storage
of, who knows, maybe 10 or twenty video frames with the ability to assign
left and right images to any slot along it. (Forgot to say, we need
switched glasses in this system.) I'd guess that some quite simple image
processing algorithms could determine if the picture is moving left or
right as the frames get dumped into storage, and the left and right images
could be selected with the appropriate delay. (The images, so selected,
would be displayed alternately as the glasses are simultaneously switched.)

In a sense this is an automatically optimized Pulfrich-like system which
derives its two viewpoints using delay during scene motion. But it wouldn't
depend on the Rolling Stones always turning counterclockwise (remember?),
and both eyes would see the same intensity.

And just think: the viewer could select the degree of delay and, just
maybe, dial himself into an occasional Ortho Seat!

Thoughts?

John Dukes


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