US-12627786-B2 - Single 2D image capture system, processing and display of 3D digital image

Abstract

A system to capture a two dimensional digital source image of a scene by a user, including a smart device having a memory device for storing an instruction, a processor in communication with the memory and configured to execute the instruction, a digital image capture device in communication with the processor, said processor configured to capture a first two dimensional digital source image of the scene, said processor configured to execute an instruction to generate a second two dimensional digital image of the scene from said first two dimensional digital image of the scene via a camera angle rotation of between 1-180 degrees of said first two dimensional digital image of the scene, and a display in communication with the processor, the display configured to display a multidimensional digital image, add audio file thereto, and create a NFT.

Inventors

• Jerry Nims
• William M. Karszes
• Samuel Pol

Assignees

• Jerry Nims
• William M. Karszes
• Samuel Pol

Dates

Publication Date

20260512

Application Date

20241021

Claims (20)

1. 1 . A combined system to capture a two dimensional digital image of a scene by a user, process the images, and view a multidimensional digital image, the combined system comprising: a memory device for storing instructions; a processor in communication with said memory device configured to execute said instructions; a digital image capture device in communication with said processor configured to capture a first two dimensional digital image of the scene; said processor executes said instructions to save said first two dimensional digital image of the scene; said processor executes said instructions to select a key subject convergence point in said first two dimensional digital image of the scene; said processor executes said instructions to generate a second two dimensional digital image of the scene from said first two dimensional digital image of the scene via a camera angle rotation of between 1-180 degrees of said first two dimensional digital image of the scene; said processor executes said instructions to align said first two dimensional digital and said second two dimensional digital image of the scene horizontally and vertically; a display in communication with said processor having a micro optical lens, said display configured to display the multidimensional digital image; said micro optical lens having at least one layer selected from the group consisting of a plurality of pixels having a refractive element integrated therein, said refractive element having a plurality of repeating series of sub-elements aligned as a single layer therewith said plurality of pixels, said plurality of repeating series of sub-elements having repeating flat sections and trapezoid sections a lenticular lens, a barrier screen, a parabolic lens, an overlay, a waveguide, a black line, and combinations thereof; said processor executes said instructions to interphase said first two dimensional digital and said second two dimensional digital image of the scene aligned about said key subject convergence point to correspond to said micro optical lens spacing to generate a multidimensional image of the scene; and said processor executes said instructions to display said multidimensional image of the scene on said display.
2. 2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to generate a message on said display to instruct the user to position said digital image capture device a distance from a key subject of the scene.
3. 3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to automatically select said key subject convergence point in said first two dimensional digital image of the scene.
4. 4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to enable the user to select said key subject convergence point in said first two dimensional digital image via an input from said display.
5. 5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to perform a horizontal image translation of said first two dimensional digital image of the scene.
6. 6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to generate a depth map from said first two dimensional digital image of the scene.
7. 7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein each of said plurality of repeating series of sub-elements is configured having a cross-section shaped as a single layer having repeating flat sections and trapezoid sections, each of said trapezoid sections having an incline angle and a decline angle.
8. 8 . The system of claim 6 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to generate an infilled mesh from said depth map of said first two dimensional digital image of the scene.
9. 9 . The system of claim 8 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to apply a parallax to said infilled mesh from said depth map of said first two dimensional digital image of the scene.
10. 10 . The system of claim 3 , wherein said processor utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically select said key subject convergence point in said first two dimensional digital image of the scene.
11. 11 . The system of claim 1 , wherein said processor utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to generate said second two dimensional digital image of the scene from said first two dimensional digital image of the scene via a camera angle rotation of between 1-180 degrees of said first two dimensional digital image of the scene.
12. 12 . The system of claim 1 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to record an audio file via a microphone in communication with said processor.
13. 13 . The system of claim 12 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to save said audio file to said memory.
14. 14 . The system of claim 13 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to select a multidimensional digital image from said memory via an input from said display and to display said multidimensional digital image on said display.
15. 15 . The system of claim 14 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to select an audio file from said memory via an input from said display and to overlay said audio file on said multidimensional digital image on said display.
16. 16 . The system of claim 15 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to crop said audio file to align therewith said multidimensional digital image via an input from said display.
17. 17 . The system of claim 16 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to save said audio file and said multidimensional digital image via an input from said display.
18. 18 . The system of claim 1 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to save said multidimensional digital image via an input from said display.
19. 19 . The system of claim 18 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to play said audio file and display said multidimensional digital image via an input from said display.
20. 20 . The system of claim 18 , wherein said processor executes said instructions to share said multidimensional digital image with a second processor via an input from said display.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS To the full extent permitted by law, the present United States Non-Provisional patent application is a Continuation in Part of and claims priority to and the full benefit of, U.S. application Ser. No. 18/790,734 filed on Jul. 31, 2024 entitled “SINGLE 2D IMAGE CAPTURE SYSTEM, PROCESSING & DISPLAY OF 3D DIGITAL IMAGE”; U.S. application Ser. No. 18/415,371 filed on Jan. 17, 2024 entitled “2D Image Capture System & Display of 3D Digital Image”; U.S. application Ser. No. 18/611,420 filed on Mar. 20, 2024 entitled “2D Image Capture System & Display of 3D Digital Image”; U.S. application Ser. No. 17/834,212 filed on Jun. 7, 2022 entitled “2 DIGITAL IMAGE CAPTURE SYSTEM AND SIMULATING 3D DIGITAL IMAGE AND SEQUENCE”, and is related to pending U.S. application Ser. No. 18/884,487 filed on Sep. 13, 2024 entitled “2D DIGITAL IMAGE CAPTURE SYSTEM, FRAME SPEED, AND SIMULATING 3D DIGITAL IMAGE SEQUENCE”; U.S. application Ser. No. 17/834,023 filed on Jun. 7, 2022 entitled “2 DIGITAL IMAGE CAPTURE SYSTEM AND SIMULATING 3D DIGITAL IMAGE AND SEQUENCE”. The foregoing is incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. FIELD OF THE DISCLOSURE The present disclosure is directed to 2D image capture, image processing, and display of a 3D or multi-dimensional image. BACKGROUND The human visual system (HVS) relies on two dimensional images to interpret three dimensional fields of view. By utilizing the mechanisms with the HVS we create images/scenes that are comparable with the HVS. Mismatches between the point at which the eyes must converge and the distance to which they must focus when viewing a 3D image have negative consequences. While 3D imagery has proven popular and useful for movies, digital advertising, many other applications may be utilized if viewers are enabled to view 3D images without wearing specialized glasses or a headset, which is a well-known problem. Misalignment in these systems results in jumping images, out of focus, or fuzzy features when viewing the digital multidimensional images. The viewing of these images can lead to headaches and nausea. In natural viewing, images arrive at the eyes with varying binocular disparity, so that as viewers look from one point in the visual scene to another, they must adjust their eyes' vergence. The distance at which the lines of sight intersect is the vergence distance. Failure to converge at that distance results in double images. The viewer also adjusts the focal power of the lens in each eye (i.e., accommodates) appropriately for the fixated part of the scene. The distance to which the eye must be focused is the accommodative distance. Failure to accommodate to that distance results in blurred images. Vergence and accommodation responses are coupled in the brain, specifically, changes in vergence drive changes in accommodation and changes in accommodation drive changes in vergence. Such coupling is advantageous in natural viewing because vergence and accommodative distances are nearly always identical. In 3D images, images have varying binocular disparity thereby stimulating changes in vergence as happens in natural viewing. But the accommodative distance remains fixed at the display distance from the viewer, so the natural correlation between vergence and accommodative distance is disrupted, leading to the so-called vergence-accommodation conflict. The conflict causes several problems. Firstly, differing disparity and focus information cause perceptual depth distortions. Secondly, viewers experience difficulties in simultaneously fusing and focusing on key subject within the image. Finally, attempting to adjust vergence and accommodation separately causes visual discomfort and fatigue in viewers. Perception of depth is based on a variety of cues, with binocular disparity and motion parallax generally providing more precise depth information than pictorial cues. Binocular disparity and motion parallax provide two independent quantitative cues for depth perception. Binocular disparity refers to the difference in position between the two retinal image projections of a point in 3D space. Conventional stereoscopic displays forces viewers to try to decouple these processes, because while they must dynamically vary vergence angle to view objects at different stereoscopic distances, they must keep accommodation at a fixed distance or else the entire display will slip out of focus. This decoupling generates eye fatigue and compromises image quality when viewing such displays. Therefore, it is readily apparent that there is a recognizable unmet need for single 2D image capture system, processing & display of digital multi-dimensional image that may be configured to address at least some aspects of the problems discussed above. SUMMARY Briefly described, in an example embodiment, the present disclosure may overcome the above-mentioned disadvantages and may meet the recognized need for a system to capture a two dimensional digital sourc