Virtual Tour Navigation via Image Blending and Registration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current virtual tour technologies provide a limited user experience as they only present a visual representation of a scene at a fixed point, restricting user interaction and immersion.
Innovation Solution
A virtual tour application that displays blended images corresponding to multiple points along a route, allowing users to navigate through a sequence of images captured while moving forward or turning, with image registration and depth mapping to create a seamless and immersive 3D experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single panoramic image is used to represent a scene, then the device complexity is reduced, but the user experience and immersion are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the virtual tour into multiple discrete images captured at different points along a route, rather than using a single panoramic image. Each image corresponds to a specific location, and the system sequences these images to create a multi-point virtual tour experience, thereby enhancing user immersion while maintaining manageable system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a two-dimensional single panoramic view to a multi-dimensional experience by incorporating multiple images from different spatial points along a route. This dimensional expansion allows users to navigate through various locations, significantly improving adaptability and user experience
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple images from different points are displayed, then user immersion and navigation experience are improved, but the device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs image registration and alignment operations during the tour creation phase rather than in real-time during user navigation. By pre-processing the multiple images to establish their spatial relationships and registration parameters, the system reduces the computational burden during actual use, thereby improving user immersion without excessively increasing processing complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces registration parameters and transformation matrices as intermediary elements that bridge multiple images from different points. These intermediaries encode the spatial relationships between images, allowing the system to manage complexity by using mathematical transformations rather than direct complex image processing during navigation
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AI summary
A virtual tour application or player provides a virtual environment in which a user can travel. One or more images may be displayed in the virtual tour application or player. The images are blended with each other to enable a user to feel more natural while he or she traveling in the virtual tour. Displaying a virtual tour in an electronic device is provided. A first image which corresponds to a first point included among a plurality of points along a route in a virtual tour is displayed. A second image which is registered with the first image and corresponds to a second point included among the plurality of points and different from the first point is displayed.