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Estimating and removing lens distortion from scenes

  • US 7,912,317 B2
  • Filed: 10/29/2005
  • Issued: 03/22/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of editing images with distortion caused with a camera lens, the method comprising:

  • in a display area of a user interface, displaying an image with said distortion, said image comprising a scene captured with said camera lens;

    receiving, in said user interface, a user'"'"'s selection of a distortion removal tool;

    through said distortion removal tool, receiving the user'"'"'s identification of a set of graphs that corresponds to a set of geometries that appear distorted in said image, wherein the set of geometries comprises a curvilinear line that corresponds to substantially a straight line in said scene that appears curvilinear in said image;

    based on said identification, determining transformations for applying on a plurality of images to remove said distortion; and

    applying the transformations to said plurality of images to remove said distortion caused with the camera lens, wherein said displaying, receiving the selection, receiving the identification, determining, and applying are performed on a computing device by an image editing application that comprises said user interface.

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