Simultaneous triple subtitles exhibition via Temporal Psychovisual Modulation

With the quick acceleration of cultural exchange and globalization, multi-language annotation for in-theatre movie exhibition is gaining more attention. The existing solution overlays a stack of subtitles in different languages over the movie, for example, the familiar combination of English + local tongue as seen in the cinema today. However, a major drawback of this straightforward piling-up type of solution is that as the required number of languages increases, the subtitle area grows and it may eventually span over the movie contents. An effective multi-language subtitling system without compromising the movie watching experience is therefore highly desired. In this paper, we propose a new Temporal Psychovisual Modulation (TPVM) based solution to the multi-language subtitling problem. TPVM is a new paradigm of information display exploiting the mismatch between high refresh rate of the modern optoelectronic displays and limited temporal resolution of the human visual system (HVS). In this work, we design a simultaneous triple subtitle exhibition system using 2 120 Hz stereoscopic DLP projectors with linear polarization filters and LCD shutter glasses. Wearing different pairs of glasses, the audience can enjoy the movie with 3 optional subtitles without interfering with the audience without the glasses and see the movie directly. Extended experimental results will be given in this paper to justify the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed multiple subtitling system.