Method and system for creating a 3D video from a monoscopic 2D video and corresponding depth information

1. A method, comprising:

capturing a video via one or more image sensors of a monoscopic video sensing device;

capturing corresponding depth information for said captured video via a depth sensor of said monoscopic video sensing device;

synchronizing said captured corresponding depth information to said captured video;

selecting one or more regions of interest in said captured video; and

composing a modified video from said captured video and said captured corresponding depth information, wherein said composing comprises scalable video coding, which compresses said captured video and said captured depth information into a base layer video and an enhancement layer video respectively wherein, depth information corresponding to said one or more regions of interest is allocated more bits for compression than rest of said depth information.

2. The method according to claim 1 , comprising storing said synchronized depth information as metadata for said captured video.

3. The method according to claim 2 , comprising matching resolution of said stored depth information to video resolution of said captured video.

4. The method according to claim 3 , comprising decompressing said compressed video and said compressed depth information; and determining relevance of video components within said decompressed video based on said one or more regions of interest.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising mapping the captured video to the modified video based on depth information contained in the one or more regions of interest.

6. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said captured video is a two-dimensional video and the modified video is a three-dimensional video based on said captured two-dimensional video and said corresponding captured depth information.

7. A system for processing signals, the system comprising:

one or more processors and/or circuits for use in a monoscopic video sensing device, said one or more processors and/or circuits comprising one or more image sensors and a depth sensor, wherein said one or more processors and/or circuits are operable to:

capture a video via said one or more image sensors;

capture depth information for said captured video via said depth sensor;

synchronize said captured depth information to said captured video;

select one or more regions of interest in said captured video and/or said captured depth information;

identify video and depth information corresponding to said regions of interest;

process said captured video and said captured depth information selectively based on said one or more regions of interest, said process comprising encoding of said captured video and depth information, wherein said regions of interest are encoded at a lower compression ratio than rest of said captured video and depth information, and wherein, said captured video and said stored depth information are encoded into a base layer video and an enhancement layer video, respectively; and

compose an enhanced video from said processed video and said processed depth information.

8. The system according to claim 7 , wherein said one or more circuits are operable to store said synchronized depth information as metadata for said captured video.

9. The system according to claim 8 , wherein said one or more circuits are operable to match resolution of said stored depth information to video resolution of said captured video.

10. The system according to claim 8 , wherein said one or more circuits are operable to:

decompress said compressed video and said compressed depth information; and

determine relevance of video components within said decompressed video based on said one or more regions of interest.

11. The system according to claim 7 , wherein the one or more image sensors comprise a two-dimensional image sensor and the depth sensor comprises a one-dimensional depth sensor.

12. The system according to claim 7 , wherein the processing of said captured video and said captured depth information further comprises allocation of more processing resources to process captured video and depth information in said one or more regions of interest than to process rest of said captured video and depth information.

13. The system according to claim 7 , wherein said captured video is a two-dimensional video and the composed enhanced video is a three-dimensional video based on said processed two-dimensional video and said processed depth information.

14. A device for processing video signals, said device comprising:

one or more circuits for capturing video, said one or circuits comprising an image sensor and a depth sensor, wherein said one or more circuits are operable to:

capture depth information via said depth sensor;

capture a video via said image sensor;

synchronize said captured depth information and said captured video;

select a depth-based region of interest in said captured depth information;

determine a region of video corresponding to said depth-based region of interest; and

selectively encode said video based on said depth-based region of interest wherein said region of video corresponding to said depth-based region of interest is allocated more bits than rest of said video, wherein said captured video is encoded in a base video layer and said depth information is encoded in an enhancement video layer.

15. The device according to claim 14 , wherein said one or more circuits are operable to:

generate an enhanced video based on said captured video and said depth information;

map said selected depth-based region of interest in said captured video to said generated video; and

selectively encode said generated video based on said mapped depth-based regions of interest, wherein information of said depth-based region of interest is allocated more bits than a region of non-interest.