US Patent 9111350 Conversion of monoscopic visual content to stereoscopic 3D

An image converter receives a two-dimensional image to be converted to a first three-dimensional image. The image converter identifies a feature-to-depth mapping function associated with a second three-dimensional image in a data store. The second three-dimensional image shares a characteristic with the two-dimensional image. The image converter determines a depth value for a plurality of pixels of the two-dimensional image according to the feature-to-depth mapping function and generates the first three-dimensional image based on the depth value for the plurality of pixels of the two-dimensional image.