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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 11, 2015
Applicant:

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kyoko Furumura, Tokyo, JP;

Takeshi Yamagishi, Tokyo, JP;

Shinichi Hirata, Kanagawa, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06T 3/00 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); H04N 13/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23229 (2013.01); G06T 3/0062 (2013.01); G06T 3/4038 (2013.01); H04N 5/23238 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); H04N 13/30 (2018.05);
Abstract

When a place where a different panoramic image was captured is present in a direction in which a panoramic image to be displayed is captured, a marker setting unit associates a marker indicating that the different panoramic image is present in said image-captured direction with the panoramic image to be displayed. A mapping processing unit maps, as a texture, the panoramic image to be displayed, with which the marker of the different panoramic image is associated, in a three-dimensional panoramic space. A three-dimensional image generation unit generates a three-dimensional panoramic image when the three-dimensional panoramic space is viewed in a designated visual line direction, with a place where the panoramic image to be displayed is captured as a visual point position. A user interface unit accepts a user's instruction regarding the displayed three-dimensional panoramic image.


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