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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:
Sep. 05, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 27, 2017
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Feng Yuan, Shanghai, CN;

Wei Zong, Beijing, CN;

Juan Zhao, Shanghai, CN;

Junkai Wu, Shanghai, CN;

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 19/006 (2013.01); G06T 3/4038 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 7/248 (2017.01); G06T 2207/20212 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus and method for efficient image optimized image stitching. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: feature search area identification circuitry/logic to narrow down a feature search area based on possible overlap between two image frames; feature detection circuitry/logic to identify a plurality of feature points in a first image frame of the two image frames; feature matching circuitry/logic to map one or more of the plurality of feature points from the first image frame to corresponding feature points in the right image frame; image frame stitching and blending circuitry/logic to stitch the first image frame and second image frame based on the mapping of the feature points between the two image frames and to blend a portion of the first image frame with a portion of the second image frame.


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