Rendering aligned perspective images

• US 8,610,741 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2009
• Issued: 12/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Szeliski, Richard S., Kopf, Johannes P., Cohen, Michael F., Stollnitz, Eric J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Xiao, Ke
• Assistant Examiner(s): TRAN, KIM THANH THI
• Application Number:
  US12/476,810
• Publication Number:
  US 20100302280A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,659 Days
• Field of Search: 345660-663, 345672-678, 715798-801
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/30 Clipping
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/003 Navigation within 3D models or images
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/32 involving image mosaicing
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10016 Video; Image sequence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30196 Human being; Person
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/33 using feature-based methods

Abstract

Techniques and systems are disclosed for navigating human scale image data using aligned perspective images. A consecutive sequence of digital images is stacked together by aligning consecutive images laterally with an image offset between edges of consecutive images corresponding to a distance between respective view windows of the consecutive images. A view window of an image in the sequence is rendered, where the view window of the image corresponds to a desired location. Offset portions of the view window of a desired number of images in the sequence are rendered, for example, alongside the full view of the image at the desired location.

Claims

1. A method for navigating image data, comprising:

stacking a sequence of digital images comprising a first digital image and a second digital image, the first digital image corresponding to a first location and the second digital image corresponding to a second location;

rendering a full view of the first digital image;

rendering an offset portion of the second digital image, the offset portion of the second digital image based upon a distance between the first location and the second location; and

panning to the second location, comprising;

rendering a full view of the second digital image; and

rendering an offset portion of the first digital image, the offset portion of the first digital image based upon the distance between the first location and the second location.

2. The method of claim 1, comprising panning to a third location to which a third digital image in the sequence of digital images corresponds, comprising:

rendering a full view of the third digital image; and

rendering a second offset portion of the second digital image, the second offset portion of the second digital image based upon a second distance between the third location and the second location, the second distance different than the distance.

3. The method of claim 1, the first digital image comprising at least some of an object, the second digital image comprising at least some of the object.

4. The method of claim 3, comprising aligning the first digital image with the second digital image based upon a feature of the object.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising at least one of zooming in to or zooming out of at least some of at least one of the first digital image or the second digital image.

6. The method of claim 5, at least one of the zooming in or the zooming out comprising changing a distance between a desired location and an object comprised in at least one of the first digital image or the second digital image.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising cropping at least some of at least one of the first digital image or the second digital image.

8. A system for navigating image data, comprising:

one or more processing units; and

memory comprising instructions that when executed by at least some of the one or more processing units, perform a method comprising;

stacking a sequence of digital images comprising a first digital image and a second digital image, the first digital image corresponding to a first location and the second digital image corresponding to a second location;

rendering a full view of the first digital image;

rendering an offset portion of the second digital image, the offset portion of the second digital image based upon a distance between the first location and the second location; and

panning to the second location, comprising;

rendering a full view of the second digital image; and

rendering an offset portion of the first digital image, the offset portion of the first digital image based upon the distance between the first location and the second location.

9. The system of claim 8, the method comprising aligning the first digital image with the second digital image.

10. The system of claim 8, the first digital image comprising at least some of an object, the second digital image comprising at least some of the object.

11. The system of claim 10, the method comprising aligning the first digital image with the second digital image based upon a feature of the object.

12. The system of claim 8, the method comprising at least one of zooming in to or zooming out of at least some of at least one of the first digital image or the second digital image.

13. The system of claim 12, at least one of the zooming in or the zooming out comprising changing a distance between a desired location and an object comprised in at least one of the first digital image or the second digital image.

14. The system of claim 8, the method comprising cropping at least some of at least one of the first digital image or the second digital image.

15. Non-volatile memory comprising instructions that when executed, perform a method for navigating image data, comprising:

stacking a sequence of digital images comprising a first digital image and a second digital image, the first digital image corresponding to a first location and the second digital image corresponding to a second location;

rendering a full view of the first digital image;

rendering an offset portion of the second digital image, the offset portion of the second digital image based upon a distance between the first location and the second location; and

panning to the second location, comprising;

rendering a full view of the second digital image; and

rendering an offset portion of the first digital image, the offset portion of the first digital image based upon the distance between the first location and the second location.

16. The non-volatile memory of claim 15, the method comprising aligning the first digital image with the second digital image.

17. The non-volatile memory of claim 15, the first digital image comprising at least some of an object, the second digital image comprising at least some of the object.

18. The non-volatile memory of claim 17, the method comprising aligning the first digital image with the second digital image based upon a feature of the object.

19. The non-volatile memory of claim 15, the method comprising at least one of zooming in to or zooming out of at least some of at least one of the first digital image or the second digital image.

20. The non-volatile memory of claim 19, at least one of the zooming in or the zooming out comprising changing a distance between a desired location and an object comprised in at least one of the first digital image or the second digital image.