Re: Issue-224 3D approach - disparity rather than (translation and condition)

Thanks John, good point.

<length> is permitted to be a real number, either as a percentage or
expressed in one of the length units. I agree that it is important that
any implementation must use sub-pixel rendering to achieve a good audience
experience.

Kind regards,

Nigel


On 20/01/2015 10:43, "John Birch" <John.Birch@screensystems.tv> wrote:

>Hi Nigel,
>
>Be advised that, as per the DVB specification, to achieve good
>positioning in 3D space, sub pixel offsets are necessary.
>This is particularly important if the disparity is animated (i.e. if the
>subtitle is moved to follow an on screen object).
>Quantisation of disparity to a single pixel level leads to perceivable
>jumps in the subtitle depth which is extremely disconcerting to a viewer.
>
>It is dependent upon display (e.g. cinema or TV screen) and viewer! but
>we have found that a 1/10 pixel difference is easily discernible.
>
>Best regards,
>John
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>P Before printing, think about the environment-----Original Message-----
>From: Nigel Megitt [mailto:nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk]
>Sent: 20 January 2015 10:22
>To: TTWG; Glenn Adams
>Subject: Issue-224 3D approach - disparity rather than (translation and
>condition)
>
>Glenn,
>
>I see you have created update https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/ttml/rev/abebbd0a303b

>to address issue-224, for 3D disparity. It looks as though the approach
>you've taken is to allow the same document to be processed twice, once
>for the left image and once for the right image for a stereoscopic
>display, and to allow translation to be specified, being dependent on a
>parameter and using the condition attribute.
>
>Can I propose an alternate way to achieve stereoscopic object placement
>that may be more amenable to simple, i.e. single pass, processing? This
>would be to add a tts:disparity style attribute, whose value would be a
><length>, positive or negative. This would be inherited and animatable,
>and apply to region, div or p (possibly a span too). Positive values
>imply that the image is behind the plane of display and negative values
>imply that the image is in front of the plane of display.
>
>For example see [1] §4.2.1. Following the references, this seems to be
>how it's done in DVB [2].
>
>[1] ETSI TS 101 600 C1.1.1 (2012-05)
>http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_ts/101600_101699/101600/01.01.01_60/ts_10

>1
>600v010101p.pdf
>[2] ETSI EN 300 743 V1.4.1 (2011-10)
>http://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_en/300700_300799/300743/01.04.01_60/en_30

>0
>743v010401p.pdf
>
>A good description from [2] (p. 34) is:
>
>> Disparity is the difference between the horizontal positions of a
>>pixel representing the same point in space in the right and left views
>>of a plano-stereoscopic image. Positive disparity values move the
>>subtitle objects enclosed by a subregion away from the viewer whilst
>>negative values move them towards the viewer. A value of zero places
>>the objects enclosed by that subregion in the plane of the display
>>screen.
>
>
>And from a little further down:
>
>> A positive disparity shift value for example of +7 will result in a
>>shift of 7 pixels to the left in the left subtitle subregion image and
>>a shift of 7 pixels to the right in the right subtitle subregion image.
>>A negative disparity shift value of -7 will result in a shift of 7
>>pixels to the right in the left subtitle subregion image and a shift of
>>7 pixels to the left in the right subtitle subregion image. Note that
>>the actual disparity of the displayed subtitle is therefore double the
>>value of the disparity shift values signalled in the disparity integer
>>and/or fractional fields […]
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Nigel
>
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