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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2018
Koninklijke Kpn N.v., Rotterdam, NL;
Nederlandse Organisatie Voor Toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Tno, s-Gravenhage, NL;
Hans Maarten Stokking, Wateringen, NL;
Simon Norbert Bernhard Gunkel, Duivendrecht, NL;
Martin Prins, The Hague, NL;
Hendrikus Nathaniel Hindriks, The Hague, NL;
Koninklijke KPN N.V., Rotterdam, NL;
Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO, 's-Gravenhage, NL;
Abstract
Some embodiments involve obtaining access to a number of omnidirectional images each representing a different viewpoint relative to a scene, and to metadata indicating a physical relation between the respective viewpoint and a physical object in the scene. Viewer data may be obtained that is indicative of a current physical relation between a viewpoint of the user and a same type of physical object in a current viewing environment of the user. An omnidirectional image may then be selected for display by comparing the viewer data to the metadata of the omnidirectional images. In other embodiments, an omnidirectional image may be selected, e.g., from omnidirectional images or by being the only available image, and the user may be instructed to assume a viewpoint in which the physical relation to the physical object in the user's current viewing environment corresponds to the physical relation as indicated by the selected image's metadata.