Google Inc.

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Thomas Weedon Hume

Tony Ferreira

Daniel Joseph Filip

Marco Paglia

David Singleton

Michael Andrew Sipe

David C Lee

Scott Ettinger

Henry Will Schneiderman

Robert William Hamilton

Evan Rapoport

Nirav Bipinchandra Mehta

Bryan Feldman

Henry John Holland

Flavio Lerda

Marc Antonio Paulina

Andrei Popescu

Jacob Mintz

David Ingram

Bryan Mawhinney

Christopher James Smith

Lenka Trochtova

Michael Ananin

Vytautas Vaitukaitis

Jeremy Lyon

Waldemar Ariel Baraldi

Jake Mintz

A content annotation tool is disclosed. In a configuration, a portion of a movie may be obtained from a database. Entities, such as an actor, background music, text, etc. may be automatically identified in the movie. A user, such as a content producer, may associate and/or provide supplemental content for an identified entity to the database. A selection of one or more automatically identified entities may be received. A database entry may be generated that links the identified entity with the supplemental content. The selected automatically identified one or more entities and//or supplemental content associated therewith may be presented to an end user.

Content annotation tool

The disclosed technology includes switching between a normal or standard-lens UI and a panoramic or wide-angle photography UI responsive to a zoom gesture. In one implementation, a user gesture corresponding to a 'zoom-out' command, when received at a mobile computing device associated with a minimum zoom state, may trigger a switch from a standard lens photo capture UI to a wide-angle photography UI. In another implementation, a user gesture corresponding to a 'zoom-in' command, when received at a mobile computing device associated with a nominal wide-angle state, may trigger a switch from a wide-angle photography UI to a standard lens photo capture UI.

User interface for wide angle photography

Certain embodiments of this disclosure include methods and devices for outputting a zoom sequence. According to one embodiment, a method is provided. The method may include: (i) determining first location information from first metadata associated with one or more images, wherein the first location information identifies a first location; and (ii) outputting, for display, a first zoom sequence based on the first location information, wherein the first zoom sequence may include a first plurality of mapped images of the first location from a first plurality of zoom levels and the plurality of mapped images are sequentially ordered by a magnitude of the zoom level.

Methods and devices for outputting a zoom sequence

A method and system is disclosed for simulating different types of camera lens on a device by guiding a user through a set of images to be captured in connection with one or more desired lens effects. In one aspect, a wide-angle lens may be simulated by taking a plurality of images that have been taken at a particular location over a set of camera orientations that are determined based on the selection of the wide-angle lens. The mobile device may provide prompts to the user indicating the camera orientations for which images should be captured in order to generate the simulated camera lens effect.

Synthetic camera lenses

Systems and techniques are provided for smart snap to interesting points in media content. A position control input may be received from a user to a control interface for a content player being used with a content item. A smart snap point and an associated smart snap area t may be determined for the content item based on the received position control input. The smart snap point and the associated smart snap area may be stored. A second position control input to the control interface for the content player being used with the content item may be received. The position control input may be determined to move a position indicator into the associated smart snap area for the smart snap point. Use of the content item may be resumed with the content player from the smart snap point.

Smart snap to interesting points in media content

Techniques for animating a view of a composite image based on metadata related to the capture of the underlying source images. According to certain implementations, the metadata may include timing or sensor data collected or generated during capture of the component source images. For example, the timing data may indicate an order or sequence in which the source images were captured. Accordingly, the corresponding regions of the composite panoramic image may be panned to in sequence, for example, using the Ken Burns Effect. In another example, sensor data from gyroscopes or accelerometers may be used to simulate the movement of the image capture device used to generate the source images. In another implementation, the source images may be associated with varying focal lengths or zoom levels. Accordingly, certain implementations may vary a level zoom, based on the metadata, while panning between source photos.

Systems and methods for animating a view of a composite image

A content annotation tool is disclosed. In a configuration, a portion of a movie may be obtained from a database. Entities, such as an actor, background music, text, etc. may be automatically identified in the movie. A user, such as a content producer, may associate and/or provide supplemental content for an identified entity to the database. A selection of one or more automatically identified entities may be received. A database entry may be generated that links the identified entity with the supplemental content. The selected automatically identified one or more entities and/or supplemental content associated therewith may be presented to an end user.

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Vanløse, Denmark

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