FPGA based Side-by-Side Video Decoder for Diamond DMD 3D Display

Abstract

The latest High-Definition Multimedia specification (HDMI )document version as HDMI1.4a describes three categories of 3D structures, including Frame Packing, Side-by-Side and Top-andBottom. Side-by-Side keeps the same data bandwidth with normal 2D video, but at the cost of half resolution on the horizontal axis, so it is commonly used in broadcasting or on-line video, in which efficiency is more important than definition. In consideration of that there is still no ASIC solution to full-support HDMI1.4a, we propose a low-cost solution based on FPGA to support the Side-by-Side video data structure decoding for 3D display on a DMD (Digital Micromirror Device)based display in this paper.