US 12,256,150 B2
Scale-down capture preview for a panorama capture user interface
Lawrence Chia-Yu Huang, Santa Clara, CA (US); Carsten Hinz, Munich (DE); Chorong Hwang Johnston, Mountain View, CA (US); Mike Ma, San Jose, CA (US); and Isaac William Reynolds, Longmont, UT (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 1, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/623,158.
Application 18/623,158 is a continuation of application No. 17/277,960, granted, now 11,949,990, previously published as PCT/US2019/053126, filed on Sep. 26, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/741,730, filed on Oct. 5, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0251169 A1, Jul. 25, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 23/698 (2023.01); H04N 23/60 (2023.01); H04N 23/63 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/698 (2023.01) [H04N 23/631 (2023.01); H04N 23/633 (2023.01); H04N 23/64 (2023.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving, by a user interface (UI) of a computing device, a selection to capture images to generate a panorama image, the received selection effective to cause the computing device to begin an image-capture process to generate the panorama image, the image-capture process having been configured to capture a plurality of images, and the image-capture process having a first portion capturing a plurality of first images and a second portion capturing a plurality of second images, the first portion captured prior to the second portion;
providing, by the UI, a preview of the panorama image during the image-capture process, wherein the providing of the preview comprises providing an early-received image from the first portion and dropping one or more later-received images from the first portion, the early-received image having been captured prior to the one or more later-received images, and dropping one or more intermediate images of the plurality of images to fit the panorama image within at least one of a width or a height of a display of the computing device;
receiving, by the UI, an indication that the image-capture process has been completed; and
providing, by the UI, the generated panorama image comprising images from the first portion and the second portion.