Digital Multi-Dimensional Photon Image Platform System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional methods for generating digital multi-dimensional images using lenticular media face issues such as misalignment, resulting in jumping images, out-of-focus, or fuzzy features, due to manual and artistic calibration limitations, which lead to poor composition and ghosting effects.
Innovation Solution
A digital multi-dimensional photon image platform system that utilizes a computer processor to systematically create high-quality images by inputting 2D source scenes, converting them into stereo pairs, selecting key subject points, and calculating parallax values to generate aligned image frames, ensuring sharp focus and eliminating jumping or fuzzy features.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual and artistic calibration methods are used to generate digital multi-dimensional images, then the process allows operator control and flexibility, but the alignment precision deteriorates, resulting in misalignment, jumping images, and fuzzy features
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical calibration operations with an automated computer-based system that calculates and applies parallax values systematically. The computer processor automatically determines the offset between left and right image frames based on depth information, eliminating the need for manual operator adjustment and achieving precise alignment without jumping images or fuzzy features.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces parallax values as a critical parameter that changes based on the depth of objects in the scene. By dynamically adjusting the offset between left and right images according to calculated parallax values rather than using fixed manual settings, the system achieves both operational simplicity and high alignment precision across multiple depth planes.
2Device complexity
If traditional analog methods with lenticular media are used, then the process is straightforward and equipment is simple, but the image quality deteriorates due to ghosting effects and poor composition
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional analog lenticular printing methods with a digital computer-based image generation system. This substitution eliminates the ghosting effects and composition problems inherent in analog methods by using digital image processing and calculated parallax offsets, while maintaining equipment simplicity through software-based solutions rather than complex mechanical apparatus.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent fundamentally changes the approach from fixed analog optical parameters to dynamically calculated digital parameters. By computing parallax values based on scene depth and using digital image manipulation, the system achieves superior image quality without the ghosting and composition errors that plague traditional lenticular methods, while keeping the overall system relatively simple.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple image frames are generated with different depth of field, then the three-dimensional effect is enhanced, but the alignment difficulty increases, causing jumping images and out-of-focus artifacts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual alignment procedures with automated computer-based alignment using calculated parallax values. The system processes multiple image frames with different depth of field settings and automatically determines the correct offset for each frame based on the depth of objects depicted, eliminating jumping images and out-of-focus artifacts that result from manual misalignment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces parallax values as a dynamic parameter that varies with object depth and frame sequence. By systematically changing the offset parameter for each image frame based on calculated values rather than using fixed manual alignment, the system achieves precise alignment across multiple frames with different depth of field, enhancing the three-dimensional effect without alignment errors.
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AI summary
A systematic approach to producing multi-dimensional photon images on a computer platform having applications to a plurality of input image(s) from various sources, and applications to coordinate and adjust numerous variables which determine the quality of the image, such as the size of the imported images, the output image size, the resolving power of the viewing screen and the width of the resolving elements, the dots per inch of the output device (or pixels per inch), the desired nearest object, the desired furthest object and the determination of the central or the “key subject”, rules of interphasing, the number of frames or layers, the minimum parallax, and the maximum parallax, and, thus, provide a digital multi-dimensional image without jumping images or fuzzy features or other visual distortions by creating high quality output images both in the form of a printed hardcopy or as a viewed image on an appropriate viewing device. The digital multi-dimensional image platform based system controls the position and path of light from the original object to the human visual system.