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Method and apparatus for fusion of images

US9576403B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Thomson Licensing · FR

Inventors

Jordi Salvador Marcos · Hamburg, DE
Malte Borsum · Hannover, DE
Axel Kochale · Springe, DE

Key dates

Filing date	May 30, 2013
Grant date	Feb 21, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 30, 2033

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04N23/698
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for improving a main image by fusing the richer information contained in a secondary image are described. A 3D structure of objects contained in the secondary image is retrieved and a parallax-corrected version of the secondary image is generated using the 3D structure. For this purpose a camera pose for which a projection of the 3D structure of the objects contained in the secondary image best resembles the perspective in the main image is determined and the parallax-corrected version of the secondary image is synthesized based on the determined camera pose. The parallax-corrected version of the secondary image is then fused with the main image.

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