Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Dahey Yoo

Alex Anthony Tursi

Kristie E Smith

Niels Van Dongen

Chunkit Jacky Chan

Daniel Rosenstein

Carmen Zlateff

Bradley G Weed

Ramona Canan

Omkar Anand Mehendale

Adam K Avery

Ivan D Romashka

Ian N Peth

Karen Mui Scott

William X Yang

Kristie Eileen Smith

Image curation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, one or more modules are launched for execution on a computing device. Responsive to the launch, criteria are generated automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules by a computing device. Images are curated using the generated criteria automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules, the curated images identified from a plurality of different image sources that are associated with a user. The curated images are caused to be displayed by a display device of the computing device automatically and without user intervention through execution of the one or more modules.

Image curation

Display screen with graphical user interface

Display screen with icon group and display screen with icon set

A field sensor may be capable of generating a panoramic field, e.g., by instructing the user to capture a sequence of fields of the panorama, performing a field evaluation to identify one or more landmarks depicted in overlapping areas of two contiguous fields, performing a field registration therebetween, and stitching together the panoramic field. However, panoramic field stitching based on field evaluation may fail to register two fields accurately or at all. Rather, panoramic field stitching may be performed using a device having an orientation sensor that detects the orientation of the device while capturing each field with a field sensor. The detected orientation may be used to orient the fields within a projection, from which a panoramic field may be accurately stitched. Additional variations include stitching together projections of the panorama captured at different times and utilizing fields captured at a distance from the root location of the panorama.

Orientation-based generation of panoramic fields

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Dahey Yoo