Translated view navigation for visualizations

US9305371B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Uber Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Blaise Aguera y Arcas · Seattle, US
• Markus Unger · Graz, AT
• Donald A. Barnett · Monroe, US
• Sudipta Narayan Sinha · Redmond, US
• Eric Joel Stollnitz · Kirkland, US
• Johannes Peter Kopf · Hamburg, DE
• Timo Pekka Pylvaenaeinen · Menlo Park, US
• Christopher Messer · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 14, 2013
• Grant date: Apr 5, 2016
• Expiry date: Aug 17, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T19/003
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for defining transition zones for navigating a visualization. The visualization may be constructed from geometry of a scene and one or more texture images depicted the scene from various viewpoints. A transition zone may correspond to portions of the visualization that do not have a one-to-one correspondence with a single texture image, but are generated from textured geometry (e.g., a projection of texture imagery onto the geometry). Because a translated view may have visual error (e.g., a portion of the translated view is not correctly represented by the textured geometry), one or more transition zones, specifying translated view experiences (e.g., unrestricted view navigation, restricted view navigation, etc.), may be defined. For example, a snapback force may be applied when a current view corresponds to a transition zone having a relatively higher error.