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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2018
Filed:
May. 24, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Seattle, WA (US);
Markus Unger, Graz, AT;
Donald A. Barnett, Monroe, WA (US);
David Maxwell Gedye, Seattle, WA (US);
Sudipta Narayan Sinha, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric Joel Stollnitz, Kirkland, WA (US);
Johannes Kopf, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for ordering images for panorama stitching and/or for providing a focal point indicator for image capture. For example, one or more images, which may be stitched together to create a panorama of a scene, may be stored within an image stack according to one or more ordering preferences, such as where manually captured images are stored within a first/higher priority region of the image stack as compared to automatically captured images. One or more images within the image stack may be stitched according to a stitching order to create the panorama, such as using images in the first region for a foreground of the panorama. Also, a current position of a camera may be tracked and compared with a focal point of a scene to generate a focal point indicator to assist with capturing a new/current image of the scene.