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公开(公告)号:US20210049737A1
公开(公告)日:2021-02-18
申请号:US17084408
申请日:2020-10-29
Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
Inventor: Olaf Brandt , Anatoli Adamov , Arthur van Hoff
IPC: G06T3/40 , G06T1/20 , H04N5/341 , H04N5/232 , H04N5/225 , H04N13/111 , H04N13/246
Abstract: Illustrative methods and systems for generating virtual reality content based on corrections to stitching errors are described. An illustrative computer-implemented method includes receiving raw virtual reality video data representing images recorded by camera modules of a camera array, using a stitching algorithm to stitch the images together to generate an initial virtual reality render, determining that the initial virtual reality render has a stitching error, determining a correction for the stitching error, and modifying the stitching algorithm based on the correction for the stitching error. The modified stitching algorithm may be used to generate a corrected virtual reality render that corrects the stitching error.
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公开(公告)号:US10691202B2
公开(公告)日:2020-06-23
申请号:US15803599
申请日:2017-11-03
Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Inventor: Arthur van Hoff , Thomas M. Annau , Jens Christensen
IPC: G06F3/01 , H04N21/4788 , H04N21/4223 , H04N21/81 , H04N21/2668 , H04N21/442 , G06Q30/02 , G06T3/40 , H04N5/232 , H04N13/271 , H04N13/106 , H04N13/111 , H04N13/243 , G06F3/0481 , G06F3/0484 , G06K9/20 , G06K9/62 , G06T11/20 , G06T19/00 , H04N7/18
Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for receiving viewing data that describes a location of a first user's gaze while viewing virtual reality content. The method also determining an object of interest in the virtual reality content based on the location of the first user's gaze. The method also includes generating a social network that includes the first user as a member of the social network. The method also includes performing an action in the social network related to the object of interest.
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公开(公告)号:US10652314B2
公开(公告)日:2020-05-12
申请号:US15592182
申请日:2017-05-10
Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Inventor: Anatoli D. Adamov , Arthur van Hoff , Adam P. Gaige , Chris P. Redmann , Sarah E. Parks
Abstract: Cloud-based virtual reality content processing methods and systems are disclosed. In some embodiments, raw virtual reality video data recorded by a virtual reality camera system may be received at a cloud based server through a network interface. The raw virtual reality video data may be processed to generate one or more virtual reality renders. A first virtual reality content may be processed in a first virtual reality format from the one or more virtual reality renders. A second virtual reality content may be processed in a second virtual reality format from the one or more virtual reality renders. The first virtual reality content and the second virtual reality content may be provided for download through a network interface.
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公开(公告)号:US11217006B2
公开(公告)日:2022-01-04
申请号:US16666338
申请日:2019-10-28
Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
Inventor: Arthur van Hoff , Daniel Kopeinigg , Philip Lee , Solmaz Hajmohammadi , Sourabh Khire , Simion Venshtain
Abstract: An exemplary three-dimensional (3D) simulation system accesses a two-dimensional (2D) video image captured by a video capture device and that depicts a bounded real-world scene and a real-world object present within the bounded real-world scene. The 3D simulation system accesses respective 3D models of the bounded real-world scene and the real-world object. Based on the 2D video image, the 3D simulation system tracks a spatial characteristic of the real-world object relative to the bounded real-world scene. Based on the tracked spatial characteristic of the real-world object and the 3D models of the bounded real-world scene and the real-world object, the 3D simulation system generates a 3D simulation of the bounded real-world scene within which the real-world object is simulated in accordance with the tracked spatial characteristic of the real-world object. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
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公开(公告)号:US20200275079A1
公开(公告)日:2020-08-27
申请号:US16870619
申请日:2020-05-08
Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
Inventor: Arthur van Hoff , Thomas M. Annau , Jens Christensen , Koji Gardiner
IPC: H04N13/243 , G02B27/00 , H04N13/167 , H04N5/225 , G06F9/30 , H04N13/246
Abstract: An illustrative method includes at least one processor receiving video data that describes a set of images captured by a set of camera modules of a camera array, stitching the set of images together, based on relative positions of the camera modules, to generate three-dimensional (3D) video content, and correcting lens distortion to remove one or more lens distortion effects from the set of images or the 3D video content. Corresponding methods and systems are described.
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公开(公告)号:US11431901B2
公开(公告)日:2022-08-30
申请号:US17243350
申请日:2021-04-28
Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
Inventor: Arthur van Hoff , Thomas M. Annau , Jens Christensen
IPC: H04N5/232 , G06T3/40 , H04N13/246 , H04N13/279 , H04N13/282 , H04N5/357 , H04N13/106 , H04N13/15 , H04N13/194 , H04N13/243
Abstract: An illustrative system constructs a map that associates pixel locations in a panoramic image to camera modules in a set of camera modules. The map may associate a first pixel location in the panoramic image to a first camera module in the set of camera modules and a second pixel location in the panoramic image to a second camera module in the set of camera modules. The second pixel location borders the first pixel location in the panoramic image. The system blends, based on at least one weight, a pixel value of the first pixel location captured by the first camera module with a pixel value of the second pixel location captured by the second camera module to determine a pixel value for a blended pixel in the panoramic image.
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公开(公告)号:US11108971B2
公开(公告)日:2021-08-31
申请号:US16443830
申请日:2019-06-17
Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
Inventor: Thomas M. Annau , Arthur van Hoff , Jens Christensen
IPC: H04N5/247 , H04N5/232 , G06T19/00 , H04N5/225 , G06T3/40 , H04N13/111 , H04N13/243 , G06Q30/02 , G06T7/00 , H04N13/106 , H04N13/271 , H04N7/18
Abstract: The disclosure includes a camera array comprising camera modules, the camera modules comprising a master camera that includes a processor, a memory, a sensor, a lens, a status indicator, and a switch, the switch configured to instruct each of the camera modules to initiate a start operation to start recording video data using the lens and the sensor in the other camera modules and the switch configured to instruct each of the camera modules to initiate a stop operation to stop recording, the status indicator configured to indicate a status of at least one of the camera modules. Lens distortion effects may be removed from the frames described by the video data. The camera modules of the camera array are configured to provide a 3× field of view overlap.
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公开(公告)号:US20210250501A1
公开(公告)日:2021-08-12
申请号:US17243350
申请日:2021-04-28
Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
Inventor: Arthur van Hoff , Thomas M. Annau , Jens Christensen
IPC: H04N5/232 , H04N13/279 , G06T3/40 , H04N13/282 , H04N13/246
Abstract: An illustrative system constructs a map that associates pixel locations in a panoramic image to camera modules in a set of camera modules. The map may associate a first pixel location in the panoramic image to a first camera module in the set of camera modules and a second pixel location in the panoramic image to a second camera module in the set of camera modules. The second pixel location borders the first pixel location in the panoramic image. The system blends, based on at least one weight, a pixel value of the first pixel location captured by the first camera module with a pixel value of the second pixel location captured by the second camera module to determine a pixel value for a blended pixel in the panoramic image.
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公开(公告)号:US11032490B2
公开(公告)日:2021-06-08
申请号:US16569067
申请日:2019-09-12
Applicant: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Inventor: Arthur van Hoff , Thomas M. Annau , Jens Christensen , Koji Gardiner
IPC: H04N5/232 , H04N5/247 , H04N13/106 , H04N13/111 , H04N13/243 , H04N13/271 , G06T3/40 , G06T7/00 , G06Q30/02 , G11B27/11 , G11B27/34 , G11B31/00 , G06F3/0481 , G06F3/0484 , G06F3/01 , G06Q50/00 , G06T19/00 , H04N13/189 , H04N13/117 , H04N13/282 , H04N7/18 , H04N13/204
Abstract: The disclosure includes a camera array comprising camera modules, the camera modules comprising a master camera that includes a processor, a memory, a sensor, a lens, a status indicator, and a switch, the switch configured to instruct each of the camera modules to initiate a start operation to start recording video data using the lens and the sensor in the other camera modules and the switch configured to instruct each of the camera modules to initiate a stop operation to stop recording, the status indicator configured to indicate a status of at least one of the camera modules.
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公开(公告)号:US11025959B2
公开(公告)日:2021-06-01
申请号:US16559613
申请日:2019-09-03
Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
Inventor: Andrew Walkingshaw , Arthur van Hoff , Daniel Kopeinigg
IPC: H04N19/86 , H04N19/162 , H04N19/167 , H04N19/17 , H04N19/597 , H04N13/139 , H04N13/368 , H04N13/366
Abstract: A method includes receiving head-tracking data that describe one or more positions of people while the people are viewing a three-dimensional video. The method further includes generating a probabilistic model of the one or more positions of the people based on the head-tracking data, wherein the probabilistic model identifies a probability of a viewer looking in a particular direction as a function of time. The method further includes generating video segments from the three-dimensional video. The method further includes, for each of the video segments: determining a directional encoding format that projects latitudes and longitudes of locations of a surface of a sphere onto locations on a plane, determining a cost function that identifies a region of interest on the plane based on the probabilistic model, and generating optimal segment parameters that minimize a sum-over position for the region of interest.
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