3D Content Enabling Technology

Philips 3D Solutions bring you a complete end-to-end 3D system that supports the process from 3D content creation up to visualization. Some applications today already use a 3D dataset, but only deliver a 2D image at the end. Philips now unlocks this content by supporting its visualization in 3D. Easy creation or adaptation of existing applications and content for the 3D display are enabled by a flexible 3D data format, in the form of 2D-plus-depth.

What is 2D + depth?

In order to generate a 3D image, the display requires a regular 2D representation of the image and a depth-map. This depth-map indicates the distance between each pixel and the viewer. The 2D image and the depth-map are used to create images on the screen, and these images are then merged by the viewer’s brain into a 3D sensation.