近年隨著3D電影與3D電視的蓬勃發展，3D電視顯示器在消費市場上逐漸成為主流。然而，目前視訊廣播仍然使用舊有的裝置，頻寬限制與相容性是一個需要被解決的議題。幀兼容格式是第一個會遇到的問題，最常見的方式是左右眼影像的side-by-side和top-and-bottom排列。 但是目前沒有一個標準格式對於單視角單深度的影片。長時間觀賞立體影像，視覺疲勞是一個常見的重要情形。導致視覺疲勞的主要原因有：調節輻輳作用衝突，過大的雙眼視差，以及立體影像失真。本論文旨在設計新的3D影像格式與改善視差舒適度之演算法，不但能與目前視訊廣播系統相容外，也可以有效地改善立體視訊的視覺舒適度，讓更多人享用高品質的立體視訊。

In recent year, 3DTV displays have become more popular in the consumer market. The 3D video service, which is widespread to everywhere through cable, terrestrial channels and the Internet, becomes the important issue recently. The bandwidth limitation and capability is still a main problem needed to be solved. The frame compatible format is the first difficulty. The most famous 3D frame compatible formats for transmitting stereoscopic views are side-by-side and top-and-bottom. We still need a better frame compatible format for packing one view with its depth information. The visual discomfort is the common problem when the audience views the stereoscopic 3D video for a long time period. According to the above problems, several efficient 3D video packing methods and comfort disparity modification are proposed in the thesis. Experimental results show that the coding performances of the novel 3D video packing formats are better than the current formats. The comfort disparity can help to adjust the existing DIBR techniques to generate more comfortable stereoscopic videos.

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