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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2013
Applicant:
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Rory Johnston, Redmond, WA (US);
Corey Birnbaum, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Nintendo Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06F 1/1694 (2013.01); G06F 3/011 (2013.01); H04N 5/2259 (2013.01);
Abstract
Operations for efficient display of panoramic images include receiving control information a plurality of tiles of a panoramic image, identifying padding included in the received tiles, and processing the tiles to remove the padding. For each of the processed tiles, at least one patch is generated which maps at least a portion of each tile to a three-dimensional surface formed in a memory. Each patch includes a plurality of polygonal areas, and corresponds to a respective portion of a sphere. The panoramic image is drawn using the patches.