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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2011
Yasutaka Furukawa, Bellevue, WA (US);
Carlos Hernandez Esteban, Kirkland, WA (US);
Yasutaka Furukawa, Bellevue, WA (US);
Carlos Hernandez Esteban, Kirkland, WA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for generating a depth tile are provided. In some aspects, a system includes an alignment module configured to map each pixel of a depthmap to a corresponding pixel of a map tile. Each pixel of the depthmap includes a depth value, and each pixel of the map tile is associated with a terrain elevation value. The system also includes a transform module configured to adjust the depth value of each pixel of the depthmap based on a corresponding terrain elevation value. The system also includes a depth tile module configured to generate the depth tile. Each pixel of the depth tile includes a corresponding adjusted depth value.
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