Sony Entertainment's Future Includes No More Fights Over 3D Glasses (patent filing revealed)

[Hollywood Reporter]

… In a patent filing that was revealed earlier this month, the company is claiming an apparatus for a glasses-free 3D display that will adjust itself no matter how far or close a viewer is away from the screen. Will the technology be a solution to fights with theatrical exhibitors? Maybe not yet, but the time is coming. …

The company registered it in June 2010, and keeping with typical USPTO protocol, it only became public earlier this month. According to the abstract:

“A stereoscopic image processing method for a stereoscopic image pair forming a 3-D image comprises the steps of evaluating whether the distance of a user is closer or further than a preferred distance from a 3-D image display upon which the stereoscopic image pair is to be displayed, and if the evaluation indicates that the user is further than the preferred distance from the 3-D image display, adjusting the respective displacements between corresponding image elements in the stereoscopic image pair, thereby changing the stereoscopic parallax in the 3-D image.”

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See the full story and the patent filing here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sony-entertainment-3D-glasses-330396