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Image-based method and system for building spherical panoramas

  • US 7,852,376 B2
  • Filed: 12/03/2007
  • Issued: 12/14/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/27/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method comprising:

  • determining a number of circles of latitude on the basis of a focal length of a camera system, a dimension of pictures associated with the camera system, and an overlapping ratio between contiguous ones of the pictures;

    receiving a plurality of contiguous pictures associated with each circle of latitude; and

    building, with one or more processors, a spherical panorama from the plurality of contiguous pictures, wherein determining the number of circles of latitude is performed in accordance with the following equation;

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