Stereo Image Display Interpolation for Polarizing Panel
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional polarizing glasses-based stereo displays lose image information by abandoning pixel data not meant for display, leading to poor recognition of certain image types, such as text or line images, due to the method of combining left and right eye images.
Innovation Solution
The method interpolates pixel data to be abandoned with data to be displayed, ensuring that all image information is preserved and enhancing the quality of the stereo image by combining interpolated odd and even pixel rows on a polarizing panel.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If pixel data is abandoned in conventional combining method, then processing complexity is reduced, but image information is lost leading to poor recognition of text or line images
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the processing parameters from simple pixel selection (abandoning unused pixels) to interpolation operations. By applying interpolation algorithms to calculate pixel values based on neighboring pixels, the system transforms the data processing approach to preserve complete image information while maintaining manageable complexity through standardized mathematical operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs interpolation operations on pixel data before the combining step. By pre-processing the pixel data to fill in abandoned pixel information through interpolation, the system ensures that complete image information is available before the combining operation, thereby preventing information loss without adding significant complexity to the overall process.
2Loss of information
If all pixel data is processed to preserve image information, then image quality is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies interpolation operations selectively rather than processing all pixel data uniformly. By focusing interpolation efforts on specific regions or using optimized interpolation algorithms that process only necessary data points, the system preserves complete image information while minimizing the additional processing time required.
3Loss of information
If interpolation operation is applied to pixel data, then image information is preserved, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the processing approach by changing from discrete pixel selection to continuous interpolation operations. This parameter change allows the system to preserve image information through mathematical relationships between pixels, using standardized interpolation algorithms that, while more complex than simple selection, provide systematic and predictable processing.
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AI summary
A stereo image displaying method adapted to a polarizing panel is provided. The stereo image displaying method includes the following steps. An original first eye image and the original second eye image are received. Each of the odd pixel data rows of the original first eye image is interpolation operated with at least one of two adjacent even pixel data rows of original the first eye image to serve as one of a plurality of pixel data rows of a first eye image of a display frame. Each of the even pixel data rows of the original second eye image is interpolation operated with at least one of two adjacent odd pixel data rows of the original second eye image to serve as one of a plurality of pixel data rows of a second eye image of the display frame. The display frame is applied on the polarizing panel.