Stereoscopic television signal processing method, signal transmitting

Abstract

A stereoscopic television signal processing method including a transmitting unit and a receiving unit where the method includes the steps of generating right and left eye picture signals respectively from a pair of image pick up devices disposed at the right and left sides of an object, each picture signal including four fields constituting a first odd-numbered field, a first even-numbered field, a second odd-numbered field, and a second even-numbered field occurring in the foregoing order where each field includes a plurality of horizontal scanning lines; sampling the right and left eye picture signals at predetermined time intervals so that the samples of the right and left eye picture signals are alternated on the horizontal lines of the four fields of each picture in such a manner that the sampling order is reversed (a) between successive horizontal scanning lines for each field, (b) between the first and second odd-numbered fields and (c) between the first and second even-numbered fields; transmitting the samples to a receiving location; separating from the samples, at the receiving location, the four fields of each picture signal in the order they were generated to thus extract said right and left eye picture signals; and applying the extracted right and left eye picture signals respectively to image receiving devices disposed at the right and left sides of an observer.