Stereoscopic video transcoder and methods for use therewith

1. A video transcoder comprising:

a descrambling module that descrambles a 3D video signal based on scrambling data;

a deformatting module, coupled to the descrambling module, that generates a deformatted video signal by unwrapping the 3D video signal in a source stereoscopic video format, based on device data that corresponds to a particular target device, to extract right and left picture views from the 3D video signal;

a scaling module, coupled to the deformatting module, that downscales the right and left picture views from a source resolution and frame rate into a scaled video signal having a target resolution and frame rate of the particular target device;

a reformatting module, coupled to the scaling module, that generates a reformatted video signal in accordance with a target video format by re-wrapping the scaled video signal, based on the scaled video signal and further based on the device data, wherein the target video format is one of: a stereoscopic frame sequential video format; and a stereoscopic frame composite video format; and

a scrambling module, coupled to the reformatting module, that scrambles the reformatted video signal based on scrambling data prior to sending the reformatted video signal to the particular target device.

2. The video transcoder of claim 1 wherein the device data indicates the target video resolution.

3. The video transcoder of claim 1 wherein when the source stereoscopic video format is a frame sequential stereoscopic format, the deformatting module generates the deformatted video signal as a two-dimensional deformatted signal, and the scaling module generates the scaled video signal as a two-dimensional scaled signal.

4. The video transcoder of claim 1 wherein the source stereoscopic video format is one of: a stereoscopic frame sequential video format; and a stereoscopic frame composite video format.

5. The video transcoder of claim 1 wherein the deformatting module generates the deformatted video signal as a plurality of two-dimensional deformatted signals, the scaling module generates the scaled video signal as a plurality of two-dimensional scaled signals, and the reformatting module generates the reformatted video signal as a stereoscopic reformatted video signal.

6. A method comprising:

descrambling a 3D video signal based on scrambling data;

generating, via a video transcoder, a deformatted video signal by unwrapping the 3D video signal in a source stereoscopic video format, based on device data that corresponds to a particular target device, to extract right and left picture views from the 3D video signal;

downscaling, via the video transcoder, the right and left picture views from a source resolution and frame rate into a scaled video signal having a target resolution and frame rate of the particular target device;

generating, via the video transcoder, a reformatted video signal in accordance with a target video format by re-wrapping the scaled video signal, based on the scaled video signal and further based on the device data, wherein the target video format is one of: a stereoscopic frame sequential video format; and a stereoscopic frame composite video format; and

scrambling the reformatted video signal based on scrambling data prior to sending the reformatted video signal to the particular target device.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the device data indicates the target video format and a target video resolution.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein the source stereoscopic video format is a frame sequential stereoscopic format, the video transcoder generates the deformatted video signal as a two-dimensional deformatted signal, and generates the scaled video signal as a two-dimensional scaled signal.

9. The method of claim 6 wherein the source stereoscopic video format is one of: a stereoscopic frame sequential video format; and a stereoscopic frame composite video format.

10. The method of claim 6 wherein the video transcoder generates the deformatted video signal as a plurality of two-dimensional deformatted signals, generates the scaled video signal as a plurality of two-dimensional scaled signals, and generates the reformatted video signal as a stereoscopic reformatted video signal.