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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Ricardo Motta, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David D. Kuo, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthaeus Krenn, Cupertino, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are disclosed for stabilizing a stream of spherical images captured by an image capture device to produce a stabilized spherical video sequence. The rotation of the image capture device during capture may be corrected in one or more desired axial directions in a way that is agnostic to the translation of the image capture device. The rotation of the image capture device may also be corrected in one or more desired axial directions in a way that is aware of the translation of the image capture device. For example, the assembled output spherical video sequence may be corrected to maintain the horizon of the scene at a constant location, regardless of the translation of the image capture device (i.e., a 'translation-agnostic' correction), while simultaneously being corrected to maintain the yaw of the scene in the direction of the image capture device's translation through three-dimensional space (i.e., a 'translation-aware' correction).