Method and apparatus for photographing and projecting moving images in three dimensions

摘要

A digital cinematographic and projection process that provides a means of 3D stereoscopic imagery that is not adversely affected by the standard frame rate of 24 frames per second, as is the convention in the motion picture industry worldwide. A method for photographing and projecting moving images in three dimensions includes recording a moving image with a first and a second camera simultaneously and interleaving a plurality of frames recorded by the first camera with a plurality of frames recorded by the second camera. The step of interleaving includes retaining odd numbered frames recorded by the first camera and deleting the even numbered frames, retaining even numbered frames recorded by the second camera and deleting the odd numbered frames, and creating an image sequence by alternating the retained images from the first and second camera.

主权项

1. A method for projecting moving images in three dimensions, comprising:
receiving left eye frames of a moving image as recorded with a first camera lens having a first lens center and having been recorded at at least 60 frames per second and at left eye recordal times; receiving right eye frames of said moving image recorded with a second camera lens having a second lens center that is spaced apart from the first lens center and having been recorded at at least 60 frames per second and at right eye recordal times offset from the left eye recordal times; and projecting said moving image onto a cinema screen from a single projector in three dimensions by flashing frames one time each in a sequence that alternates between left eye frames as recorded at the left eye recordal time by said first camera lens and right eye frames as recorded at the right eye recordal times by said second camera lens, each successive frame of the sequence having been recorded at a successive time and projected temporally with respect to one another in the sequence to show the moving image, resulting in a projected frame rate of at least 120 frames per second.