Situational awareness by compressed display of panoramic views
First Claim
1. A method for displaying a panoramic view image, the method comprising:
- obtaining a panoramic image, wherein the panoramic image comprises a central portion and peripheral portions;
applying a mapping function to the peripheral portions of the panoramic image to spatially compress each peripheral portion of the panoramic image based on a continuously increasing compression gradient that increases with distance from the central portion of the panoramic image to obtain, for each peripheral portion, a corresponding spatially compressed peripheral portion; and
displaying, on a display device, the spatially compressed peripheral portions together with the central portion of the panoramic image, wherein, for each spatially compressed peripheral portion, one or more dimensions of the spatially compressed peripheral portion are smaller than a corresponding one or more dimensions of the corresponding peripheral portion to which the mapping function is applied.
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a method for displaying a panoramic view image includes transmitting video data from a plurality of sensors to a data processor and using the processor to stitch the video data from respective ones of the sensors into a single panoramic image. A focus view of the image is defined and the panoramic image is scrolled such that the focus view is centered in the display. A high resolution camera is aimed along a line corresponding to a center of the focus view of the image and an image produced by the camera is stitched into the panoramic image. A mapping function is applied to the image data to compress the data and thereby reduce at least the horizontal resolution of the image in regions adjacent to the side edges thereof.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for displaying a panoramic view image, the method comprising:
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obtaining a panoramic image, wherein the panoramic image comprises a central portion and peripheral portions; applying a mapping function to the peripheral portions of the panoramic image to spatially compress each peripheral portion of the panoramic image based on a continuously increasing compression gradient that increases with distance from the central portion of the panoramic image to obtain, for each peripheral portion, a corresponding spatially compressed peripheral portion; and displaying, on a display device, the spatially compressed peripheral portions together with the central portion of the panoramic image, wherein, for each spatially compressed peripheral portion, one or more dimensions of the spatially compressed peripheral portion are smaller than a corresponding one or more dimensions of the corresponding peripheral portion to which the mapping function is applied. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 13, 14, 16, 19)
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7. A system, comprising:
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memory configured to store a panoramic image, wherein the panoramic image comprises a central portion and peripheral portions; a processor configured to apply a mapping function to the peripheral portions of the panoramic image to spatially compress each peripheral portion of the panoramic image based on a continuously increasing compression gradient that increases with distance from the central portion of the panoramic image to obtain, for each peripheral portion, a corresponding spatially compressed peripheral portion; and a display configured to display the spatially compressed peripheral portions together with the central portion of the panoramic image, wherein, for each spatially compressed peripheral portion, one or more dimensions of the spatially compressed peripheral portion are smaller than a corresponding one or more dimensions of the corresponding peripheral portion to which the mapping function is applied. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18)
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15. A method for displaying a panoramic view image, the method comprising:
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obtaining a panoramic image, wherein the panoramic image comprises a central portion and peripheral portions, and wherein the central portion is associated with a forward looking direction; applying a mapping function to the peripheral portions of the panoramic image to spatially compress the peripheral portions of the panoramic image to obtain spatially compressed peripheral portions; and displaying, on a display device, the spatially compressed peripheral portions together with the central portion of the panoramic image, wherein the displaying comprises displaying the central portion together with a substantially rectilinear image formed of the spatially compressed peripheral portions, wherein a position of each spatially compressed peripheral portion on the display device is based on an angular distance between the associated peripheral portion and the forwarding looking direction, wherein the central portion and the rectilinear image together form a 360 degree view about the forward looking direction, and wherein, for each spatially compressed peripheral portion, one or more dimensions of the spatially compressed peripheral portion are smaller than a corresponding one or more dimensions of the associated peripheral portion to which the mapping function is applied. - View Dependent Claims (17, 20)
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