Systems and methodologies related to formatting data for 3-D viewing

摘要

Image acquisition instruments may be employed to capture images used to produce data for driving 3-D projectors. The data obtained from the image acquisition instruments may be compressed. Projectors may also be used to form 3-D images of the object based on the compressed data after decompressing the data. Accordingly, various embodiments described herein involve the formatting of the data such as compressing the data or un-compressing the data.

主权项

1. A method for processing complex image data, the method comprising:
obtaining complex optical image data of an object having an intensity portion and a phase portion; and compressing the phase portion to yield a compressed phase data, wherein said compressing said phase portion comprises averaging the phase in visually flat areas, wherein the visually flat areas comprise at least one of: (i) portions of the object with small variations in depth, or (ii) portions of the object that are at a distance from a human visual system greater than a threshold distance such that the human visual system cannot discern small variations in depth.