3d+2dtv

Abstract

3D displays are increasingly popular in consumer and commercial applications. Many such displays show 3D images to viewers wearing special glasses, while showing an incomprehensible double image to viewers without glasses. We demonstrate a simple method that provides those with glasses a 3D experience, while viewers without glasses see a 2D image without artifacts.In addition to separate left and right images in each frame, we add a third image, invisible to those with glasses. In the combined view seen by those without glasses, this cancels the right image, leaving only the left.If the left and right images are of equal brightness, this approach results in low contrast for viewers without glasses. Allowing differential brightness between the left and right images improves 2D contrast. We observe experimentally that: (1) viewers without glasses prefer our 3D+2DTV to a standard 3DTV, (2) viewers with glasses maintain a strong 3D percept, even when one eye is significantly darker than the other, and (3) sequentialstereo display viewers with glasses experience a depth illusion caused by the Pulfrich effect, but it is small and innocuous.Our technique is applicable to displays using either active shutter glasses or passive glasses. Our prototype uses active shutter glasses and a polarizer. ACM Reference Format:Scher, S., Liu, J., Vaish, R., Gunawardane, P., and Davis, J. 2013. 3D+2DTV: 3D displays with no ghosting for viewers without glasses. ACM Trans.

Synthesizing Ghost-free Stereoscopic Images for Viewers without 3D Glasses

“…A previous solution to simultaneously present 3D content and ghost-free 2D content with a single display is to make a special image combination that cancels out, say, the right image component and leaves only the left image to viewers without 3D glasses [3,4]. However, this method significantly sacrifices the contrast of the original image.…”