A Novel System of Stereoscopic Video Based on TMS320DM642 DSP

In this paper, we propose a novel stereoscopic video display system based on Texas Instruments (TI) company´s Multimedia processor DM642. The system uses a common stereoscopic vision display method by which same scenes captured in different angles bring stereo depth information and therefore a stereoscopic perception in human´s brain. The system is a time-sequential stereoscopic display system. By using Liquid Crystal Shutter (LCS) glasses, images captured by two NTSC cameras are respectively sent to the observer´s left and right eyes. In order to enhance the quality of video, the frame rate for each eye is designed to 60 Hz, and the image´s vertical resolution is doubled compared with the input video of the camera. A high computational ability and powerful platform for real-time compression and transmission of the stereoscopic video can be achieved in our system.