Patent 8004515 was granted and assigned to Nvidia on August, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system and method that produces stereoscopic images modifies a vertex shader program that was intended to produce a single monoscopic image. When executed, the modified vertex shader program generates a first image of a stereoscopic image pair based on a first viewpoint and generates a second image of the stereoscopic image pair based on a second viewpoint.