Super high definition image (WHD: Wide/Double HD) transmission system

This paper describes a WHD image transmission system constructed from a display projector, CODECs, and a camera system imaging a super high definition image (WHD: Wide/Double HD) corresponding to two screen portions of common high-vision images. This system was developed as a transmission system to communicate with or transmit information giving a reality-enhanced feeling to a remote location by using images of super high definition. In addition, the correction processing for the distortions of images occurring due to the structure of the camera system, an outline of the transmission experiments using the proposed system, and subjective evaluation experiments using WHD images are presented. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Comp Jpn, 33(9): 41–49, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/scj.10063