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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2011
Chia-chun Tseng, Hsinchu, TW;
Chia-yu Wu, Taichung, TW;
Hong-long Chou, Taipei, TW;
Shuei-lin Chen, Kaohsiung, TW;
Chia-Chun Tseng, Hsinchu, TW;
Chia-Yu Wu, Taichung, TW;
Hong-Long Chou, Taipei, TW;
Shuei-Lin Chen, Kaohsiung, TW;
Altek Corporation, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for generating a panorama are provided. In the present method, a plurality of raw images of a scene is captured. A coarse motion estimation is executed on the raw images to obtain a coarse motion estimation result of the scene. In the meantime, the raw images inside a window of interest (WOI) are cropped to obtain a plurality of cropped images, and a fine motion estimation is executed on the cropped images according to the coarse motion estimation result of the scene, so as to obtain a fine motion estimation result of the scene. The raw images are stitched and blended according to the fine motion estimation result, so as to generate the panorama.