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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2012
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Scott Ettinger, San Carlos, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer readable mediums are provided to generate a number of targets for a panoramic image based on operating parameters of a user device, where each of the targets is associated with a portion of the panoramic image, display an initial target, responsive to determining that the user device is properly positioned with respect to the initial target, capture a first image for the initial target using a camera of the user device, display proximate targets that are connected to the initial target in a target graph of the targets, responsive to determining that the user device is properly positioned with respect to a next target of the proximate targets, capture a second image for the next target using the camera of the user device, and generate the panoramic image using the first image and the second image.