US 11,854,164 B2
Method for denoising omnidirectional videos and rectified videos
Damien Kelly, San Francisco, CA (US); Neil Birkbeck, Santa Cruz, CA (US); Balineedu Adsumilli, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Mohammad Izadi, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/708,983.
Application 17/708,983 is a continuation of application No. 16/613,932, granted, now 11,308,584, previously published as PCT/US2017/064416, filed on Dec. 4, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0222784 A1, Jul. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06T 5/002 (2013.01) [G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20021 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for processing video content, the apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to:
receive the video content comprising a spherical video;
determine whether at least one of a camera geometry or a map projection used to generate the spherical video is available;
denoise the spherical video using a first technique responsive to a determination that the at least one of the camera geometry or the map projection used to generate the spherical video is available; and
denoise the spherical video using a second technique responsive to a determination that the at least one of the camera geometry or the map projection used to generate the spherical video is unavailable.