Using two different capture media to make stereo images of a scene

Claim 1

A method of making a stereoscopic image of a scene, comprising: providing a camera having an image sensor for capturing the first image of the scene and a photosensitive medium for capturing a second image of the scene, wherein the second image of the scene is captured from a viewpoint displaced in position from the viewpoint from where the first image was captured; allowing a user to provide an indication to a photofinisher as to which images are to be produced as stereoscopic images; digitizing both the first and second images; converting both the first and second digitized images to a common color space; converting both the first and second digitized images to a common number of pixels; generating forward and reverse vector fields which define the spatial displacements between the digitized images that are due to parallax, and employing these vector fields to generate a pair of digitized images, both of which have improved characteristics, and which maintain the stereoscopic information; and producing visual images of the first and second separate capture digital images which, to a viewer, provides a stereoscopic image of the scene.

Claim 2

A method of making a stereoscopic image of a scene, comprising: providing a camera having an image sensor for capturing the first image of the scene and a photosensitive medium for capturing a second image of the scene, wherein the second image of the scene is captured from a viewpoint displaced in position from the viewpoint from where the first image was captured; allowing a user to provide an indication to a photofinisher as to which images are to be produced as stereoscopic images; digitizing both the first and second images; converting both the first and second digitized images to a common color space; converting both the first and second digitized images to a common number of pixels; generating forward and reverse vector fields which define the spatial displacements between the digitized images that are due to parallax, and employing these vector fields to generate a pair of digitized images, both of which have improved characteristics, and which maintain the stereoscopic information; and producing visual images of the first and second separate capture digital images which, to a viewer, provides a stereoscopic image of the scene.