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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Nikolai Smolyanskiy, Seattle, WA (US);
Zhengyou Zhang, Redmond, WA (US);
Sean Eron Anderson, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Hall, Snohomish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A vehicle camera system captures and transmits video to a user device, which includes a viewing device for playback of the captured video, such as virtual reality or augmented reality glasses. A rendering map is generated that indicates which pixels of the video frame (as identified by particular coordinates of the video frame) correspond to which coordinates of a virtual sphere in which a portion of the video frame is rendered for display. When a video frame is received, the rendering map is used to determine the texture values (e.g., colors) for coordinates in the virtual sphere, which is used to generate the display for the user. This technique reduces the rendering time when a user turns his or her head (e.g., while in virtual reality) and so it reduces motion and/or virtual reality sickness induced by the rendering lag.