US 12,266,085 B2
Orientation-based frame selection for composite image creation
Tomi Marko Juhani Sokeila, Tampere (FI); and Liisa Johanna Peltonen, Pirkkala (FI)
Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Nov. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/055,678.
Prior Publication US 2024/0161241 A1, May 16, 2024
Int. Cl. G06T 5/50 (2006.01); G01P 15/14 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 10/74 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 5/50 (2013.01) [G01P 15/14 (2013.01); G06T 7/70 (2017.01); G06V 10/761 (2022.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20221 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
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1. A method for creating a composite image, the method comprising:
determining, based at least in part on orientation sensor data sampled in association with each frame in a sequence of frames captured by a camera, camera orientation information indicating relative movement of the camera between each pair of consecutively-captured frames;
identifying a first frame in the sequence corresponding to an image capture trigger event;
identifying a target image capture point preceding the image capture trigger event by an interval characteristic of human reaction time;
defining an initial frame sequence interval based at least in part on the target image capture point;
creating a subset of orientationally-similar frames by trimming or shifting the initial frame sequence interval to exclude frames corresponding to camera orientations that do not satisfy similarity criteria; and
combining together select frames from the subset of orientationally-similar frames to create the composite image.