Be Here Corporation

Yesvideo, Inc.

Katerina L Shiffer

Michele Mae Covell

Subutai Ahmad

Edward C Driscoll, Jr

John Louis Warpakowski Furlan

Robert George Hoffman

John L W Furlan

Derek Fluker

Karen L Bechtel

Daniel B Curtis

Venugopal Garimella

The invention automatically evaluates the quality of the visual images in a collection of visual images and selects one or more visual image(s) from the collection based on the evaluation of the quality of the visual images.

Automatic selection of a visual image or images from a collection of visual images, based on an evaluation of the quality of the visual images

Apparatus, methods and computer program products are disclosed that track movement or a moving object through a warped video image. The warped video image can result from a video camera attached to a warping lens such as a wide-angle lens or panoramic lens. Some embodiments allow a user to select the portion of the image that interests the user for tracking. Other embodiments automatically select and track movement through the warped video image without input from a user. Still other embodiments track when movement comes into proximity with an area-of-interest and will raise an alarm that can be used to start recording of the warped video image or to trigger other alarm responses. Yet other embodiments change the bandwidth allocated to portions of the warped video image sent over a network responsive to the tracked movement so that the movement stays in a quality view.

Method, apparatus & computer program product for tracking objects in a warped video image

Methods and apparatus for defining a view path through at least one wide-angle video stream and for creation of a resultant unwarped video stream responsive to the view path. Aspects of the invention allow an operator to monitor the wide-angle video stream(s) and select which portion of the wide-angle frame to unwarp in real-time. Further, the operator can stop the playback of the wide-angle video stream and dwell within a particular wide-angle frame to create special effects such as camera tilt, pan and zoom operations in a stop action situation.

Method and system for generation of multiple viewpoints into a scene viewed by motionless cameras and for presentation of a view path

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Milpitas, CA, United States of America

Katerina L Shiffer