Image-based method and system for building spherical panoramas

Details Image-based method and system for building spherical panoramas Image-based method and system for building spherical panoramas

2007-12-03

2010-12-14

Ye, Lin (Department: 2622)

Television

Camera, system and detail

Unitary image formed by compiling sub-areas of same scene

C348S037000

Reexamination Certificate

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07852376

ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to building spherical panoramas for image-based virtual reality systems. The image-based spherical panoramas can be navigated in any desired view direction (360-degrees) by suitable three-dimensional image browsers or viewers. The method and system also includes computing the number of photographs required to be taken and the azimuth angle of the center point of each photograph for building a spherical environment map representative of the spherical panorama. The method and system also includes an algorithm for computing the accurate azimuth angles of these taken photographs and seaming them together to build the spherical environment map.

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