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

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:53 AM, John Birch <John.Birch@screensystems.tv>
wrote:

> Thanks Nigel,
>
> I have to admit that, although I can see how Glenn's proposal would work,
> I would have reservations about a double decode approach.
>

It is not decoded twice, just rendered twice.


> For example, what happens in a double decode approach if the second
> document did not decode (e.g. the conditional resulted in an invalid
> document),


conditionalization is not at syntactic level, so this is not possible
without the entire document being invalid


> or the second decode inadvertently had a side effect (e.g. the subtitle
> was clipped against a region boundary?).
>

not possible, as translation applies to region, not content in region


>
> The approach of a separate disparity value, that could be animatable, seem
> IMHO preferable.


i disagree; it is overly specialized and eventually maps to translation in
any case


> Decode once, then shift the resulting graphic as necessary (where each
> graphic gets shifted half the disparity in opposite directions).
> In fact that's another issue for the conditional approach... Doc A would
> have to be left eye, Doc B would have to be right eye position.... but then
> neither document would work correctly as a non-stereoscopic document.
>

nope, study the example under tts:translate; if stereoscopic imaging is
applied, then region is still well placed


> With a disparity property, ignoring the property in a non-stereoscopic
> render would result in the correct intended positioning.
>

as does the approach shown in the example


>
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> 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 10:46
> To: John Birch; TTWG; Glenn Adams
> Subject: 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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