Thispaperproposesanewtechniquethatisusedtoembeddepthmapsintocorresponding2-dimensional(2D)images.Sincea2Dimageanditsdepthmapareintegratedintoonetypeofimageformat,theycanbetreatedasiftheywereone2Dimage.Thereby,itcanreducetheamountofdatain3Dimagesbyhalfandsimplifytheprocessesforsendingthemthroughnetworksbecausethesynchronizationbetweenimagesfortheleftandrighteyesbecomesunnecessary.Weembeddepthmapsinthequantizeddiscretecosinetransform(DCT)dataof2Dimages.Thekeytothistechniqueiswhetherthedepthmapscouldbeembeddedinto2Dimageswithoutperceivablydeterioratingtheirquality.Wetrytoreducetheirdeteriorationbycompressingthedepthmapdatabyusingthedifferencesfromthenextpixeltotheleft.Weassumethatthereisonlyonenon-zeropixelatmostononehorizontallineintheDCTblockbecausethedepthmapvalueschangeabruptly.Weconductanexperimenttoevaluatethequalityofthe2Dimagesembeddedwithdepthmapsandfindthatsatisfactoryqualitycouldbeachieved.
