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- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for spatially referencing images
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Application No.: US16299616Application Date: 2019-03-12
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Publication No.: US10891512B2Publication Date: 2021-01-12
- Inventor: Alexander Thomas Starns , Arjun Raman , Gadi Royz
- Applicant: Google Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee: Google Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP
- Main IPC: G06K9/62
- IPC: G06K9/62 ; G06T17/00 ; G06T7/68 ; H04N13/20 ; G01C11/02 ; H04N5/232 ; G06T7/593

Abstract:
Provided is a method of spatially referencing a plurality of images captured from a plurality of different locations within an indoor space by determining the location from which the plurality of images was captured. The method may include obtaining a plurality of distance-referenced panoramas of an indoor space. The distance-referenced panoramas may each include a plurality of distance-referenced images each captured from one position in the indoor space and at a different azimuth from the other distance-referenced images, a plurality of distance measurements, and orientation indicators each indicative of the azimuth of the corresponding one of the distance-referenced images. The method may further include determining the location of each of the distance-referenced panoramas based on the plurality of distance measurements and the orientation indicators and associating in memory the determined locations with the plurality of distance-referenced images captured from the determined location.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190205697A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SPATIALLY REFERENCING IMAGES Public/Granted day:2019-07-04
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