Article dispensing – With recorder – register – indicator – signal or exhibitor
Reexamination Certificate
2005-11-29
2005-11-29
Noland, Kenneth (Department: 3653)
Article dispensing
With recorder, register, indicator, signal or exhibitor
C715S855000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06968973
ABSTRACT:
A system and process for providing an interactive video tour of a tour site to a user is presented. In general, the system and process provides an image-based rendering system that enables users to explore remote real world locations, such as a house or a garden. The present approach is based directly on filming an environment, and then using image-based rendering techniques to replay the tour in an interactive manner. As such, the resulting experience is referred to as Interactive Video Tours. The experience is interactive in that the user can move freely along a path, choose between different directions of motion at branch points in the path, and look around in any direction. The user experience is additionally enhanced with multimedia elements such as overview maps, video textures, and sound.
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Criminisi Antonio
Kang Sing Bing
Szeliski Richard
Uyttendaele Matthew T.
Lyon Richard T.
Lyon & Harr LLP
Microsoft Corporation
Noland Kenneth
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