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Photographing big things

  • US 20070076016A1
  • Filed: 12/30/2005
  • Published: 04/05/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/04/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer implemented system that facilitates optimized, multi-perspective digital image generation, comprising:

  • an interface that receives a plurality of images that correspond to a plurality of camera locations along a camera path, each respective image depicts a portion of a 3-dimensional scene from the point of view of one of the plurality of camera locations; and

    an image generation component that generates an optimized image, the image generation component comprising;

    a surface definition component that determines a dominant depth for the scene and generates a 2-dimensional picture surface at the dominant depth;

    a projection component that projects each pixel of an image from the plurality of images onto the picture surface and identifies overlapping pixels; and

    an optimization component that selects a best pixel to be projected from among the overlapping pixels based on an objective function.

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