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- Patent Title: System and method for producing multi-angle views of an object-of-interest from images in an image dataset
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Application No.: US14972894Application Date: 2015-12-17
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Publication No.: US09858717B2Publication Date: 2018-01-02
- Inventor: James Lynch , William Gale
- Applicant: HERE Global B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
- Current Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Agency: Lempia Summerfield Katz LLC
- Main IPC: G06T19/00
- IPC: G06T19/00 ; G06T15/20 ; G06F17/30 ; G06K9/00 ; G06T3/40 ; H04N5/369

Abstract:
Disclosed are a system and method for creating multi-angle views of an object-of-interest from images stored in a dataset. A user specifies the location of an object-of-interest. As the user virtually navigates through the locality represented by the image dataset, his current virtual position is determined. Using the user's virtual position and the location of the object-of-interest, images in the image dataset are selected and interpolated or stitched together, if necessary, to present to the user a view from his current virtual position looking toward the object-of-interest. The object-of-interest remains in the view no matter where the user virtually travels. From the same image dataset, another user can select a different object-of-interest and virtually navigate in a similar manner, with his own object-of-interest always in view. The object-of-interest also can be “virtual,” added by computer-animation techniques to the image dataset. For some image datasets, the user can virtually navigate through time as well as through space.
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