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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1992
Masafumi Kurashige, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for transforming a two-dimensional input video signal onto a three-dimensional surface and for depicting illumination thereof by a spot light source transforms the two-dimensional video signal in accordance with a mapping data signal onto the three-dimensional surface. A spot light source signal including first and second data signals is generated, the first data signal representing the direction of the axis of a spot light source and the second data signal representing a radius of the spot light source. A spot light key signal is generated based on the second data signal and a distance signal representing distances between locations on the three-dimensional surface and the axis of the spot light source based on the first data signal and the mapping data signal. At least one of a luminance component and hue components of at least one of the two-dimensional video image signal and the transformed two-dimensional video image signal is modified in accordance with the spot light key signal.