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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2006
Mallory Jackson Paine, San Jose, CA (US);
Devang Kalidas Naik, San Jose, CA (US);
Steve Ko, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joshua Matthew Williams, San Jose, CA (US);
John William Scalo, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Kim E. A. Silverman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mallory Jackson Paine, San Jose, CA (US);
Devang Kalidas Naik, San Jose, CA (US);
Steve Ko, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joshua Matthew Williams, San Jose, CA (US);
John William Scalo, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Kim E. A. Silverman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus, methods and systems for creating mosaics are described. A method is provided that includes identifying an image for presentation as a mosaic; dividing the identified image into a plurality of tiles; scoring each tile; identifying a matching image from an image dataset using the score for each tile; and rendering the mosaic using the matching images.