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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2020
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tanmay Nitin Bichu, Redwood City, CA (US);
Ikuya Saito, Kawasaki, JP;
Hideo Hoshuyama, Kawasaki, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A solution to the problem of image and video stitching is disclosed that compensates for the effects of lens distortion, camera misalignment, and parallax in combining multiple images. The disclosed image stitching technique includes depth or disparity estimation, alignment, and blending processes configured to be computationally efficient and produce quality results by limiting the presence of noticeable seams and artifacts in the final stitched image. An inter-frame approach applies image stitching to video frames to maintain temporal continuity between successive frames across a stitched video output having a 360-degree viewing perspective. A temporal adjustment is configured to improve temporal continuity between a subsequent frame and a previous frame in a sequence of video frames.