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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2011
Samuel Williams, Redmond, WA (US);
Jonathan Rosenberg, Redmond, WA (US);
Johanness Kopf, Bellevue, WA (US);
Don Kim, Bellevue, WA (US);
Samuel Williams, Redmond, WA (US);
Jonathan Rosenberg, Redmond, WA (US);
Johanness Kopf, Bellevue, WA (US);
Don Kim, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for selecting source imagery for a planar panorama comprising a curved path. The curved path can be identified in a block of source imagery, where the source imagery comprises inside-curve source imagery for an inside curve of the curved path. Image data from a first source image from the inside-curve source imagery can be compared with image data from a second source image from the inside-curve source imagery. If image data of the first source image sufficiently overlaps image data of the second source image the first source image can selected for inclusion in a set of images to be used for the planar panorama, while the second source image may not be so selected (e.g., to mitigate artifacts, object overlap, repeated objects, etc. in the planar panorama).