Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Generating and signaling transition between panoramic images
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Application No.: US16712736Application Date: 2019-12-12
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Publication No.: US11461942B2Publication Date: 2022-10-04
- Inventor: Hans Maarten Stokking , Hendrikus Nathaniël Hindriks , Mattijs Oskar van Deventer , Johannes Marinus Maria de Nijs , Karim Mohammed el Assal
- Applicant: Koninklijke KPN N.V. , Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
- Applicant Address: NL Rotterdam; NL s-Gravenhage
- Assignee: Koninklijke KPN N.V.,Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
- Current Assignee: Koninklijke KPN N.V.,Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO
- Current Assignee Address: NL Rotterdam; NL s-Gravenhage
- Agency: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.
- Priority: EP18215479 20181221
- Main IPC: G06T11/60
- IPC: G06T11/60 ; G06T7/70 ; G06T13/80

Abstract:
Processor systems and computer-implemented methods are provided for rendering a multiuser virtual environment in which different panoramic images are provided as image-based backdrop for different viewing positions in the virtual environment. When a user switches from a first viewing position for which a first panoramic image is rendered to a second viewing position for which a second panoramic image is rendered, a transition may be rendered for the user, for example as a mathematical transformation of the panoramic images. To avoid other users perceiving the representation of the user in the virtual environment from abruptly switching to the second viewing position, transition data may be provided which enables another processor system to render a representation of the transition in the virtual environment, e.g., by moving an avatar of the user along a movement trajectory.
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