The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
May. 13, 2015
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus provide for: acquiring a still image of a scene at a location; acquiring a moving image of at least one object at the scene taken at a different time of day, a different date, and/or a different season; selecting an image frame from among a plurality of image frames of the moving image as a still image frame; generating a three-dimensional (3D) image from the still image in a three-dimensional (3D) object space; superimposing the still image frame from the moving image onto the three-dimensional (3D) image; displaying the three-dimensional (3D) image on a display screen for a user; and generating the moving image superimposed on the three-dimensional (3D) image, starting at the selected image frame, in response to receiving a command from the user.