Abstract: The optical device of the present invention is able to capture a three-dimensional image via one or more imaging devices while permitting the viewer to view the object(s) during image acquisition. The user is thereby able to adjust the orientation of the optical device to obtain the desired image.

Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus are disclosed for producing enhanced three dimensional effects. The invention emulates physical processes of focusing wherein objects in the foreground and the background are in varying degrees out-of-focus and represented differently to each of a viewer's eyes. In particular, the invention divides out-of-focus light representations so that different partitions of such a division are viewed by a viewer's right eye as compared to what is viewed by the viewer's left eye, and so that the identical in-focus representation is viewed by both eyes. Thus, the invention interposes novel processing between a determination as to what to render in a synthetically produced three dimensional space and the actual rendering thereof, wherein the novel processing produces stereoscopic views from a two dimensional view by utilizing information about the relation of light sources in the three dimensional space to the in-focus plane in the space.

Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus is disclosed for producing enhanced three dimensional effects. The invention emulates physical processes of focusing wherein objects in the foreground and the background are in varying degrees out-of-focus and represented differently to each of a viewer's eyes. In particular, the invention divides out-of-focus light sources so that different partitions of such a division are viewed by a viewer's right eye as compared to what is viewed by the viewer's left eye. Thus, the invention interposes novel processing between a determination as to what to render in a synthetically produced three dimensional space and the actual rendering thereof, wherein the novel processing produces stereoscopic views from a two dimensional view by utilizing information about the relation of light sources in the three dimensional space to the in-focus plane in the space.