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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 06, 2013
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe Limited, London, GB;
Sharwin Winesh Raghoebardayal, London, GB;
Simon Mark Benson, London, GB;
Ian Henry Bickerstaff, London, GB;
Abstract
A method of rendering an image based upon a first stereoscopic image comprising a pair of images is provided. The method includes generating a virtual three-dimensional model of the scene depicted in the first stereoscopic image responsive to distances derived from the first stereoscopic image, detecting one or more free edges in the three dimensional model, and generating one or more textures for the virtual three-dimensional model from at least one of the pair of images of the first stereoscopic image. The method also includes applying at least one texture to a respective part of the three dimensional model, and rendering the virtual three dimensional model from a different viewpoint to that of the first stereoscopic image. Rendering the virtual three dimensional model comprises modifying a transparency of rendered pixels of an applied texture as a function of the pixel's distance from that free edge.