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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2008
Applicants:
Richard Szeliski, Bellevue, WA (US);
Matthew T. Uyttendaele, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Richard Szeliski, Bellevue, WA (US);
Matthew T. Uyttendaele, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Multi-spline image blending technique embodiments are presented which generally employ a separate low-resolution offset field for every image region being blended, rather than a single (piecewise smooth) offset field for all the regions to produce a visually consistent blended image. Each of the individual offset fields is smoothly varying, and so is represented using a low-dimensional spline. A resulting linear system can be rapidly solved because it involves many fewer variables than the number of pixels being blended.