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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 08, 1999
Ford Oxaal, Cohoes, NY (US);
Other;
Abstract
An apparatus for modeling the visible world using a spherical data set includes a first device means for generating the spherical data set, the first device having a wide angle lens which is pivotable around a predetermined focal point, a second device for selecting a viewpoint within a p-surface, a third device for texture mapping selected data of the spherical image data onto the p-surface such that the resultant texture map is substantially equivalent to projecting the selected data onto the p-surface from the viewpoint to thereby generate a texture mapped p-sphere, and a fourth device for displaying a predetermined portion of the texture mapped p-sphere. A memory which stores a seamless spherical image data set formed from N circular image data sets captured by a single lens, where the circular image data sets are taken from a single focal point of the lens, and where N is a positive integer greater than 1 is also described.