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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2022
Acer Incorporated, New Taipei, TW;
Sergio Cantero Clares, New Taipei, TW;
Wen-Cheng Hsu, New Taipei, TW;
Shih-Hao Lin, New Taipei, TW;
Chih-Haw Tan, New Taipei, TW;
Acer Incorporated, New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
An exemplary embodiment of the invention provides an image processing method for a virtual reality display system. The method includes: enabling a first shared buffer and a second shared buffer; performing an image capturing operation to obtain a first image from a virtual reality scene; storing the first image to the first shared buffer; in response to that the storing of the first image is finished, reading the first image from the first shared buffer; performing a depth estimation operation on the first image to obtain depth information corresponding to the first image; storing the depth information to the second shared buffer; in response to that the storing of the depth information is finished, reading the depth information from the second shared buffer; performing an image generation operation according to the depth information to generate a pair of second images corresponding to the virtual reality scene; and outputting the pair of second images by a display of the virtual reality display system.