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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2001
John L. W. Furlan, Belmont, CA (US);
Edward C. Driscoll, Jr., Portola Valley, CA (US);
Robert G. Hoffman, Fremont, CA (US);
Derek Fluker, San Jose, CA (US);
Karen L. Bechtel, San Jose, CA (US);
Katerina L. Shiffer, Milpitas, CA (US);
Venugopal Garimella, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Daniel B. Curtis, Newark, CA (US);
Be Here Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for defining a view path through at least one wide-angle video stream and for creation of a resultant unwarped video stream responsive to the view path. Aspects of the invention allow an operator to monitor the wide-angle video stream(s) and select which portion of the wide-angle frame to unwarp in real-time. Further, the operator can stop the playback of the wide-angle video stream and dwell within a particular wide-angle frame to create special effects such as camera tilt, pan and zoom operations in a stop action situation.