Industry’s First Glasses-Free 3D Notebook PC by Toshiba
Toshiba unveiled the new dynabook Qosmio T851/D8CR, world’s first glasses-free 3D notebook PC with ability to display 3D as well as 2D content simultaneously in separate windows in one screen, allowing user to watch high quality 3D images or games in one window, while at the same time working, browsing the internet or sending e-mail in another window. Glasses-free 3D images has been made possible through 3D image creation using parallax, by delivering separate images to left and right eyes, as well as distinctive “face-tracking “ function and “Active Lens”. Face-tracking function will allow the integrated web camera in the PC to track the user’s face and recognize the position of the eyes, while Active Lens which is integrated into LED panel controls the polarization of light which is delivered from the panel, ensuring the precise delivery of separate images to each eye, even during the time the user is moving.
2D to 3D real-time conversion technology made possible thanks to SpursEngine™, a dedicated image processor, based on Cell Broadband Engine™, as well as Face3D and Caption stabilizer technologies. Face3D is a high-speed, high-accuracy face detection technology responsible for locating faces in 2D images and applying a human depth template to the image, resulting in 3D appearance with graded shading, while Caption stabilizer is responsible for detecting any captions in the image and keeping it constantly at the front of the image, where the depth of the captions remains fixed and easy to read. Switching between 2D and 3D images is as simple as turning OFF and ON the Active Lens on the PC. The new dynabook Qosmio T851/D8CR will be available only in Japan from late July 2011
