Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and methods for the storage of overlapping regions of imaging data for the generation of optimized stitched images
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Application No.: US16666221Application Date: 2019-10-28
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Publication No.: US10992881B2Publication Date: 2021-04-27
- Inventor: Adeel Abbas , Cesar Douady , Timothy MacMillan
- Applicant: GoPro, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Mateo
- Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
- Current Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Mateo
- Agency: Law Office of Mark Wang, P.C.
- Main IPC: H04N5/265
- IPC: H04N5/265 ; H04N7/18 ; H04N5/232 ; H04N5/247

Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for stitching images, or re-stitching previously stitched images. Specifically, the disclosed systems in one implementation save stitching information and/or original overlap source data during an original stitching process. During subsequent retrieval, rendering, and/or display of the stitched images, the originally stitched image can be flexibly augmented, and/or re-stitched to improve the original stitch quality. Practical applications of the disclosed solutions enable, among other things, a user to create and stitch a wide field of view (FOV) panorama from multiple source images on a device with limited processing capability (such as a mobile phone or other capture device). Moreover, post-processing stitching allows for the user to convert from one image projection to another without fidelity loss (or with an acceptable level of loss).
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