IP Library Granted Patent US 8,842,903
Granted Patent B2
US 8,842,903 · App. 12/330,124 · Granted Sep 23, 2014

System and method for generating and reproducing image file including 2D image and 3D stereoscopic image

Inventors: Seo-Young Hwang (Suwon-si, KR); Gun-Ill Lee (Seoul, KR); Jae-Yeon Song (Seoul, KR); Yong-Tae Kim (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
H04N13/0055H04N13/0066H04N13/0454H04N19/00769H04N13/0048
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Patent No.
US 8,842,903
App. No.
12/330,124
Granted
Sep 23, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An apparatus includes a storage unit to receive and store an image file, a processor to parse a media data field of the image file including one or more image data samples and to parse a media header field including an image type data field indicating whether each of the one or more image data samples is one of 2 dimensional (2D) image data and 3 dimensional (3D) stereoscopic image data to generate an image corresponding to one of a 2D image and a 3D stereoscopic image based on the image type data field of the image file, and a display unit to display the generated image according to the image type data field of the image file.

Claims (33)

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform a method comprising:

receiving an image file;

parsing a media data field of the image file including one or more image data samples;

parsing a media header field including an image type data field including a flag field indicating whether each of the one or more image data samples is one of 2 dimensional (2D) image data and 3 dimensional (3D) stereoscopic image data; and

generating an image corresponding to one of a 2D image and a 3D stereoscopic image based on the image type data field of the image file,

wherein the image type data field further includes a first count field indicating a numerical count of the image data samples of the same type in sequence, and

wherein the image type data field further includes a second count field indicating a number of fragments in which a type of the fragment is changed from stereoscopic to monoscopic or from monoscopic to stereoscopic, the fragment being a set of the image data samples.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the media header field includes a track field, the track field includes a track-level metadata field, and the image type data field is located in the track-level metadata field.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein two of the plurality of the 3D stereoscopic image data samples represent a frame, such that each frame consists of the left view image and the right view image arranged in a side-by-side manner.

4. The non-transmitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the stereoscopic composition type includes at least one of side-by-side, vertical line interleaved, frame sequential, monoscopic left image, and monoscopic right image.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the image type data field further includes a stereoscopic composition type field indicating a stereoscopic composition type as a stereoscopic visual type of stereoscopic content included in the image file.

6. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving an image file;

parsing a media data field of the image file including one or more image data samples;

parsing a media header field including an image type data field including a flag field indicating whether each of the one or more image data samples is one of 2 dimensional (2D) image data and 3 dimensional (3D) stereoscopic image data; and

generating an image corresponding to one of a 2D image and a 3D stereoscopic image based on the image type data field of the image file,

wherein the image type data field further includes a first count field indicating a numerical count of the image data samples of the same type in sequence, and

wherein the image type data field further includes a second count field indicating a number of fragments in which a type of the fragment is changed from stereoscopic to monoscopic or from monoscopic to stereoscopic, the fragment being a set of the image data values.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , wherein the media header field includes a track field, the track field includes a track-level metadata field, and the image type data field is located in the track-level metadata field.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 further comprising:

controlling a barrier liquid crystal display (LCD) based on the flag to turn on if the flag is set as 3D stereoscopic image data and to turn off if the flag is set as 2D image data.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , wherein two of the plurality of the 3D stereoscopic image data samples represent a frame, such that each frame consists of the left view image and the right view image arranged in a side-by-side manner.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , wherein the stereoscopic composition type includes at least one of side-by-side, vertical line interleaved, frame sequential, monoscopic left image, and monoscopic right image.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 , wherein the image type data field further includes a stereoscopic composition type field indicating a stereoscopic composition type as a stereoscopic visual type of stereoscopic content included in the image file.

12. An apparatus, comprising:

a storage unit configured to receive and store an image file;

a processor configured to parse a media data field of the image file including one or more image data samples and to parse a media header field including an image type data field including a flag field indicating whether each of the one or more image data samples is one of 2 dimensional (2D) image data and 3 dimensional (3D) stereoscopic image data to generate an image corresponding to one of a 2D image and a 3D stereoscopic image based on the image type data field of the image file; and

a display unit configured to display the generated image according to the image type data field of the image file,

wherein the image type data field further includes a first count field indicating a numerical count of the image data samples of the same type in sequence, and

wherein the image type data field further includes a second count field indicating a number of fragments in which a type of the fragment is changed from stereoscopic to monoscopic or from monoscopic to stereoscopic, the fragment being a set of the image data samples.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the display unit includes a barrier liquid crystal display (LCD), and the processor controls the display unit based on the flag to turn on the barrier LCD if the flag is set as 3D stereoscopic image data and to turn off the barrier LCD if the flag is set as 2D image data.

14. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the stereoscopic composition type includes at least one of side-by-side, vertical line interleaved, frame sequential, monoscopic left image, and monoscopic right image.

15. The apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the image type data field further includes a stereoscopic composition type field indicating a stereoscopic composition type as a stereoscopic visual type of stereoscopic content included in the image file.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 8, 2008
From: HWANG, SEO-YOUNG; LEE, GUN-ILL; SONG, JAE-YEON; KIM, YONG-TAE
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
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Priority Claims (4)
KR 10-2007-0127564 · Dec 10, 2007 · national
KR 10-2008-0000532 · Jan 3, 2008 · national
KR 10-2008-0004086 · Jan 14, 2008 · national
KR 10-2008-0012002 · Feb 5, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
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