DEVICE FOR CREATING AND ENHANCING THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE EFFECTS

摘要

A device for creating more natural three-dimensional image effects which may be recorded, for example, by video cameras. The device has an intermittent image pathway occluder for receiving at least two image pathways which alternately and intermittently occludes the two image pathways, a horizontal imaging-shifting component for shifting at least one of the image pathways leftward or rightward, a vertical imaging-shifting component for shifting the image pathways upward and downward, and an image pathway compositing component which forms a coincident superimposed composite three-dimensional image after the image pathways have been shifted by the horizontal and vertical imaging-shifting components, and after passing through the intermittent image pathway occluder. Also, a device for enhancing the more natural three-dimensional effect of such images which are created and which may be recorded and/or displayed.

主权项

1. A device for creating three-dimensional image effects and which receives an image as two separate image pathways spaced apart along a horizontal axis, the device comprising:
an intermittent image pathway occluder which receives the two image pathways, and which alternately and intermittently occludes the two image pathways; a horizontal imaging-shifting component for shifting at least one of the two image pathways leftward or rightward along a horizontal axis, and a comprising at least one horizontal image-shifting element which is positioned to receive and shift at least one of the two image pathways leftward or rightward; a vertical imaging-shifting component for shifting the two image pathways upward and downward along a vertical axis, and comprising an upward image-shifting element and a downward image-shifting element, wherein the upward image-shifting element is positioned to receive and shift one of the two image pathways upward and wherein the downward image-shifting element is positioned to receive and shift the other of the two image pathways downward; and an image pathway compositing component which forms a coincident superimposed composite three-dimensional image after the two image pathways have been shifted by the horizontal imaging-shifting component and the vertical imaging-shifting component, and after the two image pathways have been alternately and intermittently occluded by the intermittent image pathway occluder.