Intel Corporation

Greg Weinstein

Narayan Biswal

Stanley J Baran

Harleen Kaur Gill

Nilesh V Shah

Fai Yeung

Barnan Das

Archie Sharma

Mayuresh M Varerkar

Sankar Jayaram

Wayne O Cochran

Ritesh Kale

Uma Jayaram

Gilson Goncalves De Lima

Patrick Youngung Shon

Durga Raj Mathur

John A Harrison

Ok Joon Kim

Kyle Siehl

Gockcen Clingir

An apparatus, system, and method are described for providing real-time capture, processing, and distribution of panoramic virtual reality (VR) content. One embodiment of a graphics processor comprises a video interface to receive a plurality of images from a corresponding plurality of cameras; an image rectifier to perform a perspective re-projection of at least some of the images to a common image plane to generate a rectified plurality of images; a stitcher to analyze overlapping regions of adjacent images in the rectified images and to identify corresponding pixels in the overlapping regions and to stitch the adjacent images in accordance with the corresponding pixels to generate a panoramic image comprising a stitched combination of the rectified plurality of images; and a cylindrical projector to project the panoramic image onto a cylindrical surface to generate a final panoramic video image to be used to implement a VR environment on a VR apparatus.

Method and apparatus for processing and distributing live virtual reality content

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Greg Weinstein