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Panoramic movies which simulate movement through multidimensional space

  • US 6,337,683 B1
  • Filed: 05/12/1999
  • Issued: 01/08/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/13/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for simulating movement through multidimensional space comprising in combination,a multi-lens camera for simultaneously capturing a plurality of digital images that cover the entire spherical view field, compression units for individually compressing said images into compressed images, means for transferring said images to a computer, a program operated by said computer which seams said images into panoramas and which links said panoramas into a fixed sequence of panoramas, a viewer which selectively automatically displays at a frame rate that creates a simulation of motion a portion of each of said linked panoramas in said fixed sequence whereby movement is simulated.

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