Patent Number: 5,552,821

Date of Patent: September 3, 1996

METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR STEREOSCOPIC TELEVISION

A hybrid stereoscopic television method and system wherein a high definition television (HDTV) camera and a standard lower definition television camera (NTSC, PAL, etc.) arc used as a hybrid stereoscopic pair, taking advantage of the physiological reaction of the brain of a viewer equipped with crossed polarizers or the like and viewing a screen: of projecting complementarily polarized images from the cameras, imaging the composite images to be only the HDTV image, but in stereoscopic illusion.