Patents by Inventor Lars Schnyder

Lars Schnyder has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8928729
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus and computer program code for converting 2D video data to 3D video data includes receiving a two dimensional (2D) video feed from a video camera, the feed including a set of image frames, the frames together forming a panorama image, generating a background depth map, extracting for each of the image frames a set of image frame depth maps from the background depth map, generating an updated depth map using the set of image frame depth maps and the background depth map, and rendering an output image, the output image based on the panorama image and the updated depth map, the output image and the panorama image together forming a stereoscopic image pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Lars Schnyder, Oliver Wang, Aljoscha Aleksej A. Smolic
  • Publication number: 20130063549
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, systems, methods, apparatus and computer program code for converting 2D video data to 3D video data includes receiving a two dimensional (2D) video feed from a video camera, the feed including a set of image frames, the frames together forming a panorama image, generating a background depth map, extracting for each of the image frames a set of image frame depth maps from the background depth map, generating an updated depth map using the set of image frame depth maps and the background depth map, and rendering an output image, the output image based on the panorama image and the updated depth map, the output image and the panorama image together forming a stereoscopic image pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Inventors: Lars Schnyder, Oliver Wang, Aljoscha Aleksej A. Smolic