Namco Bandai Games, Ltd.

Namco Limited

Atsushi Miyazawa

Shigeki Tooyama

Motonaga Ishii

Katsuki Itami

Masaaki Hanada

Printed material for stereoscopic viewing is fabricated by creating images for the left eye and the right eye ILand IRfor stereoscopic viewing, performing correction processing to remove perspective of images in the ILand IRat a base surface, creating images for the left eye and the right eye ILand IR, and performing anaglyph processing or the like, based on the ILand IR. An image IL for the left eye is created by rendering a projection of each point of a graphic object onto a base surface BS in a projection direction linking a viewpoint position for the left eye VPL to each point of the graphic object OB, and an IMAGE IR FOR THE RIGHT EYE is created by rendering a projection of each point of the graphic object onto the base surface BS in a projection direction linking a viewpoint position for the right eye VPL to each point of the graphic object OB. Printed material for stereoscopic viewing is fabricated by anaglyph processing or the like, based on the IL and IR.

Method of making printed material for stereoscopic viewing, and printed material for stereoscopic viewing

Method of fabricating printed material for stereoscopic viewing, and printed material for stereoscopic viewing

An image generation system includes a first image generation section for generating images ILand IRfor the left eye and the right eye, a second image generation section for generating images ILand IRfor the left eye and the right eye by performing correction processing to remove perspective of images in the ILand IRat a base surface, and a stereoscopic image generation section for generating a stereoscopic image based on the ILand IR. It further includes an image generation section for generating an image IL for the left eye by rendering a projection of each point of a graphic object onto a base surface BS in a projection direction linking a viewpoint position for the left eye VPL to each point of the graphic object OB, and for generating an image IR for the right eye by rendering a projection of each point of the graphic object onto the base surface BS in a projection direction linking a viewpoint position for the right eye VPL to each point of the graphic object OB, and the stereoscopic image generation section for generating a stereoscopic image based on the IL and IR.

Image generation system, image generation method, program, and information storage medium

An image generation system includes a first image generation section for generating images ILand IRfor the left eye and the right eye, a second image generation section for generating images ILand IRfor the left eye and the right eye by performing correction processing to remove perspective of images in the ILand IRat a base surface, and a stereoscopic image generation section for generating a stereoscopic image based on the ILand IRIt further includes an image generation section for generating an image IL for the left eye by rendering a projection of each point of a graphic object onto a base surface BS in a projection direction linking a viewpoint position for the left eye VPL to each point of the graphic object OB, and for generating an image IR for the right eye by rendering a projection of each point of the graphic object onto the base surface BS in a projection direction linking a viewpoint position for the right eye VPL to each point of the graphic object OB, and the stereoscopic image generation section for generating a stereoscopic image based on the IL and IR.

A stereoscopic image generating apparatus for generating stereoscopic images to be displayed on a n-eye type of stereoscopic image display apparatus, for every frame, and displaying dynamic images on the stereoscopic image display apparatus, and a game apparatus comprising the stereoscopic image generating apparatus. A stereoscopic image generating apparatuscomprises: an input image storage memorycomprising storage areas corresponding to n viewing images inputted from an outside for every frame, respectively; and an interleaverfor interleaving the viewing images in parallel by reading out image data to be sampled of the viewing images from predetermined storage addresses of the input image storage memory, and generating a stereoscopic image to be displayed on a n-eye type of stereoscopic image display apparatus.

Stereoscopic image generating apparatus and game apparatus

A pseudo random number pattern which does not contain the minimum and maximum gradation values of pixels of input image data, and consists of, as elements, threshold values set at nearly equal intervals, is generated, and input image data is binarized by ordered dithering using this pseudo random number pattern. Since the elements of the pseudo random number pattern do not contain the minimum and maximum gradation values of the pixels of the input image data, even when a binary image is input, noise components, i.e., black or white isolated pixels can be prevented from periodically appearing. Since the threshold values of the pseudo random number pattern are set at nearly equal intervals, a dither image with quality as high as that can be obtained by the conventional method can be obtained even when a halftone image is input.

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Atsushi Miyazawa