Hardware implementation for real-time 3D rendering in 2D-to-3D conversion

With the advances in central processing unit (CPU) capability, 3D display technology becomes popular in recent years. Now, there are more and more 3D products such as 3D camera, 3D projector, and 3D-TV. The 3D technology is not difficult to understand because most of the video contents are captured through two individual lenses. The corresponding video contents are considered as two respective bit streams. However, how to transform traditional 2D video contents to 3D one is a critical problem to solve it. This paper proposes a realtime 3D rendering architecture for view synthesis in 2D-to-3D conversion. The real-time architecture can support 60 frames per second and full HD resolution (1920×1080) on FPGA platform.