3D Image Display System Profile-Based Rendering

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current technologies face challenges in providing content for multi-view or super multi-view 3D displays, as existing methods require detailed specifications and are inconvenient for users, especially due to varying resolutions, numbers of views, and multiplexing methods, leading to difficulties in supplying content that is compatible with these displays.

Innovation Solution

A 3D image display system and method that includes a profile information provider to collect and provide hardware characteristics of the display device, and a 3D image reproducer to render content based on this information, allowing for the generation of auto-stereoscopic or super multi-view image content that is compatible with different display devices, regardless of their specific settings.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If content is customized for each specific multi-view display specification, then compatibility with that display is improved, but the complexity of content supply increases and user convenience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent compatibilityVSAvoidcontent supply complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal content supply system that can adapt to multiple different multi-view display specifications through a single platform. The content is rendered in a standardized format that can be universally played across different displays with varying resolutions, viewpoint numbers, and multiplexing methods, eliminating the need for separate content customization for each display type.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts rendering parameters such as resolution, viewpoint count, and multiplexing method based on the target display's specifications. By changing these parameters during the content generation process, the system maintains compatibility across different display configurations without requiring separate content versions for each specification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If multiple exclusive contents are created for different multi-view displays, then display-specific performance is improved, but the time and resources required for content supply increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay performanceVSAvoidcontent preparation time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent establishes preliminary standardized rendering guidelines and parameter sets for different multi-view display types before actual content creation. This preliminary preparation includes defining standard resolutions, viewpoint arrangements, and multiplexing methods, which accelerates the content production process by eliminating the need for ad-hoc customization for each display.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates master content in a standardized format that can be copied and adapted to different display specifications through parameter adjustment rather than complete recreation. This copying approach with parameter variation significantly reduces content preparation time compared to creating exclusive content for each display type.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Manufacturing precision

If detailed display specifications are required for content rendering, then rendering precision is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates as users must identify their specific hardware characteristics

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverendering precisionVSAvoiduser operation convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements an automated system that self-detects the display specifications and automatically adjusts rendering parameters without requiring user input. The system queries display hardware characteristics, identifies the appropriate rendering configuration, and executes the rendering process autonomously, maintaining high precision while eliminating the burden of manual specification identification from users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that automatically detect display hardware characteristics and use this information to adjust rendering parameters. The feedback loop ensures that the correct rendering precision is applied based on the actual display capabilities, while the process remains transparent and requires no user intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10616566B23D image display system and method
Publication Date: 2020.04.07 KOREA INST OF SCI & TECH
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AI summary

A three-dimensional (3D) image display system includes a profile information provider configured to provide profile information defining a hardware characteristic of a 3D image display device, and a 3D image reproducer configured to collect information of the hardware characteristic of the 3D image display device from the profile information provider and render image content according to the profile information.