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WO1998043442A1
WO1998043442A1 PCT/IB1998/000127 IB9800127W WO9843442A1 WO 1998043442 A1 WO1998043442 A1 WO 1998043442A1 IB 9800127 W IB9800127 W IB 9800127W WO 9843442 A1 WO9843442 A1 WO 9843442A1
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  • the present invention relates to image generation methods and apparatuses, and in particular to the generation of matched pairs or groups of images for stereoscopic or multiple viewpoint display.
  • Stereoscopy in three-dimensional (3-D) graphics refers to techniques for delivering different but correlated images to the left and right eyes in order to stimulate the perception of depth: a number of such techniques are described in "Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice” by James D. Foley et al, 2nd Edition, published by Addison-Wesley 1990, ISBN 0-201-12110-7 at pages 915 to 917.
  • one 3-D graphics renderer generates the image for the left eye and another generates the image for the right eye. These images might then be fed to a Head Mounted Display or similar stereoscopic display device.
  • a multi-pass image compositor may be modified to execute the above method.
  • An example of such a multi-pass image compositor is described in "Talisman: Commodity Real-Time 3-D Graphics for the PC", Computer Graphics Proceedings, Annual Conference Series 1996, pp 353-363.
  • Such compositors render a 2-D view of a 3-D environment by first identifying individual objects appearing in the environment, then rendering separate 2-D images of each object (which separate images are generally referred to herein as segments) before compositing the segments into a single output image.
  • An advantage of such an arrangement is flexibility in that individual segments can be updated as frequently or as rarely as necessary: for example, background or inanimate objects may require little modification over a series of frames, whilst animated characters may substantially alter each frame.
  • multi-pass image compositors allow for segments to be manipulated, for example by translation, rotation or scaling, between frames (which frames are then re-composited for display).
  • an image processing apparatus for generating a stereo pair of two- dimensional (2-D) images of objects made up of a plurality of image primitives in three-dimensional (3-D) object space, the first and second images being from respective predetermined viewpoints within the object space
  • the apparatus comprising: a source of primitive data defining the primitives making up objects within the object space; object processing means coupled to receive primitive data from said source, and arranged to identify primitives corresponding to individual objects within the object space, and to render a respective 2-D image segment for each object, to form a first image segment set; segment compositor means coupled to receive said first image segment set from said object processing means, operable to apply predetermined translations to respective ones of said image segments of said first set, and arranged to composite said first image from said first image segment set; characterised in that the apparatus further comprises shift processing means coupled to receive data defining respective locations within the object space of the primitives of said first image segment set from said object processing means, and arranged to determine a
  • the second image for a stereoscopic pair is created.
  • This second image does not suffer from the prior art problems of gaps appearing due to the parallax effect, since each segment has been rendered complete, and the degree to which one object obscures another is not considered until compositing takes place.
  • the predetermined depth value used in determination of the respective translations is suitably a perspected depth value derived from the inter-ocular spacing of the first and second viewpoints.
  • modification may be applied to either or both of the inter- ocular spacing and perspected depth value in order to generate a variety of defocussing effects or to enable adjustment of the system for individual users.
  • segments may be rendered by the object processor as a series of tiles (for example 32x32 pixel blocks) which are assembled by the compositor to the complete segments before these segments are in turn composited to form an output image.
  • the present invention is not limited to stereoscopic image pairs, and may be used to generate any number of offset image viewpoints, for example for display by autostereoscopic screen. In such circumstances, however, a trade-off has to be made between the desired refresh rate per viewpoint and the number of times the necessary shifts have to be applied to the segments per frame.
  • Figure 1 schematically illustrates the handling of image objects as separately rendered planar segments
  • FIG. 2 is a block schematic diagram of an image processing display device embodying the invention.
  • Figure 1 shows a view of a three-dimensional environment having a back plane E in front of which are four objects (characters A to C and tree D) at respective locations within the 3-D object world.
  • Each of the objects A to D is shown bounded by a rectangular box (dashed outline) which boxes represent the boundary of respective image segments per object.
  • the generation of the output image comprises the steps of identifying the image primitives making up each of the objects, separately rendering each (and also background image E) as respective image segments, which segments are subsequently composited to form the final image.
  • the composition step handles the occlusion of one object by another, such as character C being partially hidden behind the tree D, as well as taking contributions from occluded image areas when it is determined that the area of the occluding segment is transparent.
  • transparent parts of a segment will tend to arise from the selection of rectangular bounding boxes for the segments, which are easier to handle than segments having irregular outlines which more closely follow the periphery of the respective object.
  • the lower part of Figure 1 is a schematic plan view of the above scene showing the assignment of depth values to each of the rendered two- dimensional image segments A,B,C,D, the back plane depth value Z E , and the perspected depth Z F , representing the depth of focus of an observer and with which the rendered segment B is coincident in this example.
  • This lower plan view shows the parallax effect which, in prior systems, leads to the appearance of gaps in one or both of the images generated for a stereo pair.
  • V., and V 2 represent the two viewpoints from which the respective images of the stereo pair are generated with line 10 indicating the position of the screen on which the viewer sees the two-dimensional transformed version of the 3-D environment.
  • gaps may arise where, for example, the image for the left eye from viewpoint V., is initially rendered and then horizontal offsets are applied to the portions of that rendered image to create the view from the right eye viewpoint V 2 .
  • this problem of gaps is avoided in the present system due to the composition of the left and right eye images taking place after rendering of all component parts within those images.
  • FIG 2 shows a stereoscopic imaging apparatus embodying the present invention.
  • a source of image primitive data is initially supplied to a pre-processing stage 12 which handles some front end graphics such as lighting calculations and the breaking down of more complex primitive shapes to triangles for simplicity of processing.
  • the pre-processing stage 12 may suitably be further configured to extract the audio data and pass it to an audio processing stage (not shown).
  • the image primitives are passed to object primitive processor 14 which performs all the stages necessary for the generation of the individual image segments including scan conversion, shading, texturing, hidden surface removal and anti-aliasing. Coupled with the processor 14 is a random access memory 16 which provides a workspace for processor 14, as well as holding texture maps, colour look-up tables etc. Whilst the image segments may be rendered complete, it is preferred to render the larger segments as a series of tiles, each being, for example, 16 x 16 or 32 x 32 pixels.
  • the amount of depth buffering required is restricted to the size of one tile and may be accommodated either within the processor 14 or in RAM 16.
  • the tiles making up a segment are passed from RAM 16 to a segment compositor 18 suitably operating at video refresh rates of up to at least 72 Hz and operable to decompress the tile data if it has been stored in compressed form in RAM 16.
  • the compositor 18 processes the image segments such as to apply translations or transformations (typically horizontal and/or vertical positional offsets, scaling, rotation and skew).
  • translations or transformations typically horizontal and/or vertical positional offsets, scaling, rotation and skew.
  • the extent of translation to be applied per segment is determined by shift processor 20 coupled with the segment compositor and further coupled to receive details of each segment at 3-D coordinates from the object primitive processor 14.
  • the output from the segment compositor 18 as a result of assembling an image from the untranslated segments is passed to the first compositing buffer 22L.
  • the composited image formed from the translated segments (for example corresponding to the image from viewpoint V 2 in Figure 1) is output to a corresponding compositing buffer 22R.
  • Each of these compositing buffers 22L, 22R may comprise full screen storage, although for the sake of economy and speed of operation it is preferred that each comprises a pair of smaller buffering areas (such as 16 or 32 scan lines each) with one area being loaded from the compositor 18 whilst the other is being output for display.
  • respective display driver circuits 24L,24R Coupled to receive the output from the compositing buffers 22L,22R, are respective display driver circuits 24L,24R which in turn supply respective displays 26L.26R.
  • the form of display driver and display device will depend on the system application, for example the two displays may comprise left and right screens of a stereoscopic head mounted display device.
  • the technique may be expanded to give N offset images (where N is three or more) for supply to an N-way lenticular screen autostereoscopic display device.
  • the shift processor 20 would control the segment compositor 18 to sequentially apply (N-1) translations to the basic set of segments with additional compositing buffers 28L.28R receiving the further translated image data.
  • additional display drivers and displays (not shown) would also be provided.
  • the system provides a means of simulating loss of fusion in the human visual system in 3D graphics and virtual reality systems.
  • the human visual system fuses (combines) the images registered on the retinas of the left and right eyes such that the brain perceives a single image and stereoscopic perception relies on the two images fusing together properly.
  • the visual system cannot always fuse the two images; this is typically due to some medical condition (for example, inability to accommodate in the near distance with increasing age) but loss of fusion can occur in otherwise healthy individuals.
  • Loss of fusion is typically characterised by double vision; once this occurs the visual system is confused which can result in blurry vision and/or inability to focus. Cases where double vision and blurry vision can occur in healthy individuals include being tired, being drunk and suffering from blows to the head.
  • Stereoscopy relies on accurately simulating the view seen by each eye, this is usually done by taking account of the inter-ocular separation but, in addition, accounting for the inward looking angle of each eye and introducing a point of focus defined by blurring all play their part in simulating stereoscopy.
  • parameters such as inter-ocular separation and amount of blurring of the image it is possible not only to tailor the system for those with special needs (such as children) but also to fool a user's visual system into triggering double vision with apparent loss of ability to focus.
  • applications can simulate tiredness, drunkenness or the effects of blows to the head in the virtual environment.
  • the same mechanism can also be used to indicate to the user that further immersion in the virtual environment is inadvisable; in effect introducing a premature fatigue and nausea to induce the viewer to leave the virtual environment.

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L'invention concerne la génération d'images stéréoscopiques ou à points de vue multiples par identification d'objets individuels dans un environnement virtuel en 3-D et restitution de segments d'images individuelles de ces objets en situation isolée (14). On forme une première moitié de couple stéréoscopique par composition simple (18) de segments de l'image objet dans leurs emplacements d'origine avant leur sortie vers des dispositifs tampon (22) et d'affichage. La deuxième image du couple stéréoscopique est générée par application de décalages positionnels, et éventuellement rotationnels, au même ensemble de segments d'images objets: le nombre de décalages est déterminé (20) par la profondeur apparente de l'objet par rapport à la profondeur et à l'espacement en perspective des premier et deuxième points de vue. La deuxième image est alors composée à partir des segments d'images objets plusieurs fois décalés. On peut obtenir d'autres images, comme pour un affichage autostéréoscopique à vues multiples, par d'autres opérations de décalage et de composition. L'invention concerne également une caractéristique de mise en application, permettant de générer des effets de défocalisation à partir d'une variation d'espacement de point de vue et/ou de modification de profondeur en perspective.
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