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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2007
Filed:
May. 30, 2003
Daniel G. Aliaga, Millington, NJ (US);
Ingrid Birgitta Carlbom, Summit, NJ (US);
Thomas A. Funkhouser, Pennington, NJ (US);
Dimah V. Yanovsky, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Daniel G. Aliaga, Millington, NJ (US);
Ingrid Birgitta Carlbom, Summit, NJ (US);
Thomas A. Funkhouser, Pennington, NJ (US);
Dimah V. Yanovsky, Plainsboro, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Techniques for compressing and decompressing images captured from viewpoints throughout an n-dimensional space. As opposed to conventional approaches, these techniques exploit image coherence over the entire n-dimensional space, providing quick access to images along arbitrary contiguous viewpoint paths during computer graphics applications. This is accomplished by combining a hierarchical data structure with a compression methodology. Such techniques provide for generating and arranging reference images and residual images into a spatial image hierarchy such as a binary tree structure. Images and residuals may be encoded using intra-image compression. A captured image is extracted via a sequence of image warping and addition operations.