A 216fps 4096×2160p 3DTV set-top box SoC for free-viewpoint 3DTV applications
3DTV promises to become the mainstream of next-generation TV systems. Highresolution 3DTV provides users with a vivid watching experience. Moreover, free-viewpoint view synthesis (FVVS) extends the common two-view stereo 3D vision into virtual reality by generating unlimited views from any desired viewpoint. In the next-generation 3DTV systems, the set-top box (STB) SoC requires both a high-definition (HD) multiview video-coding (MVC) decoder to reconstruct the real camera-captured scenes and a free-viewpoint view synthesizer to generate the virtual scenes [1–2].