Image capture and ordering

US9712746B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

• Blaise Aguera y Arcas · Seattle, US
• Markus Unger · Graz, AT
• Donald A. Barnett · Monroe, US
• David M. Gedye · Seattle, US
• Sudipta Narayan Sinha · Redmond, US
• Eric Joel Stollnitz · Kirkland, US
• Johannes Peter Kopf · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 14, 2013
• Grant date: Jul 18, 2017
• Expiry date: Mar 25, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T3/4038
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for ordering images for panorama stitching and/or for providing a focal point indicator for image capture. For example, one or more images, which may be stitched together to create a panorama of a scene, may be stored within an image stack according to one or more ordering preferences, such as where manually captured images are stored within a first/higher priority region of the image stack as compared to automatically captured images. One or more images within the image stack may be stitched according to a stitching order to create the panorama, such as using images in the first region for a foreground of the panorama. Also, a current position of a camera may be tracked and compared with a focal point of a scene to generate a focal point indicator to assist with capturing a new/current image of the scene.