VIDEO SIGNAL WITH DEPTH INFORMATION

摘要

A system (100) for generating a signal (1300) representing a three dimensional scene from a primary view, comprising a sequence generator (104) for generating a sequence of stripes defining at least part of the representation of the three dimensional scene from the primary view and a signal generator (106) for generating a video signal comprising the sequence of stripes. Each stripe in turn represents a rectangular area of image information comprising data elements defining a color, a depth and a position of the rectangular area of image information, wherein the color and depth data elements for each stripe are derived from surface contour information of at least one object in the scene and the position data element is derived from the position of the surface contour information of the at least one object within the primary view. In this signal at least one stripe of the sequence of stripes represents surface contour information of the at least one object selected from an occluded area or a side area of the at least one object in the scene.