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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2022
Filed:
May. 04, 2020
Gopro, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Adeel Abbas, San Mateo, CA (US);
Balineedu Chowdary Adsumilli, San Mateo, CA (US);
David Newman, San Mateo, CA (US);
GoPro, Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and methods for characterizing panoramic content, such as by a wide field of view and large image size. In one implementation, a panoramic image may be mapped to a cube or any other projection e.g icosahedron or octahedron. The disclosure exploits content continuity between facets, such as in the case of encoding/decoding cube-projected images. One facet may be encoded/decoded independently from other facets to obtain a seed facet. One or more transformed versions of the seed facet may be obtained; e.g., one corresponding to a 90° counterclockwise rotation, another to a 90° clockwise rotation, and one to an 180° rotation. Transformed versions may be used to form an augmented image. The remaining facets of the cube may be encoded using transformed versions within the augmented image. Continuity between transformed facets in the top row of the augmented image and facets in the middle row of the augmented image may be utilized for motion or intra prediction, and to obtain greater encoding performance compared to encoding facets independently.