TRANSITIONING BETWEEN TOP-DOWN MAPS AND LOCAL NAVIGATION OF RECONSTRUCTED 3-D SCENES
First Claim
1. A computer-readable storage medium containing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more computers, cause the computers to perform an animated transition between a top-down map display generated from a 3-D point cloud computed from a collection of photographs and a local-navigation display showing a photograph from the collection of photographs.
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Abstract
Technologies are described herein for transitioning between a top-down map of a reconstructed structure within a 3-D scene and an associated local-navigation display. An application transitions between the top-down map and the local-navigation display by animating a view in a display window over a period of time while interpolating camera parameters from values representing a starting camera view to values representing an ending camera view. In one embodiment, the starting camera view is the top-down map view and the ending camera view is the camera view associated with a target photograph. In another embodiment, the starting camera view is the camera view associated with a currently-viewed photograph in the local-navigation display and the ending camera view is the top-down map.
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20 Claims
- 1. A computer-readable storage medium containing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more computers, cause the computers to perform an animated transition between a top-down map display generated from a 3-D point cloud computed from a collection of photographs and a local-navigation display showing a photograph from the collection of photographs.
- 10. A computer-implemented method for performing a transition between a top-down map display generated from a 3-D point cloud computed from a collection of photographs and a local-navigation display showing a photograph from the collection of photographs, the computer-implemented method comprising animating a view in a display window over a period of time while interpolating camera parameters from values representing a starting camera view to values representing an ending camera view.
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16. A system for providing transitions between a top-down map display generated from a 3-D point cloud computed from a collection of photographs and a local-navigation display showing a photograph from the collection of photographs, the system comprising:
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a user computer connected to a display device; and a visualization client executing on the user computer and configured to animate a view in a display window on the display device over a period of time while interpolating camera parameters from values representing a starting camera view (402) to values representing an ending camera view. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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