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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2014
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Luc Vincent, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Daniel Joseph Filip, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen Chau, Stanford, CA (US);
Stephane Lafon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Zhonghao Yang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Andrew Timothy Szybalski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A panorama viewer is disclosed which facilitates navigation from within the panorama of a larger, structured system such as a map. The panorama viewer presents a viewport on a portion of a panoramic image, the viewport including a three-dimensional overlay rendered with the panoramic image. As the orientation of the viewport within the panoramic image changes, the three-dimensional overlay's orientation in three-dimensional space also changes as it is rendered with the panoramic image in a manner that matches the change in orientation of the viewport.