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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2004
Applicants:
Steven Dwain Zimmermann, Knoxville, TN (US);
Christopher Shannon Gourley, Philadelphia, TN (US);
Inventors:
Steven Dwain Zimmermann, Knoxville, TN (US);
Christopher Shannon Gourley, Philadelphia, TN (US);
Assignee:
IPIX Corporation, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01); H04N 7/00 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed for providing special effects for wide-angle video images. The special effects include replacing a selected portion of a wide-angle video image with a predetermined image or an associated portion of a video image captured in a subsequent frame. Other special effects include image intensity scaling for wide-angle video images.