IP Library Granted Patent US 10,445,882
Granted Patent B2
US 10,445,882 · App. 15/687,749 · Granted Oct 15, 2019

Method for panorama image processing

Inventor: Tzu-Fong Liao (New Taipei, TW)
Assignee: AMBIT MICROSYSTEMS (SHANGHAI) LTD.
G06T7/13G06T3/4038G06T7/174G06T7/33G06T7/32G06T2207/20221
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Patent No.
US 10,445,882
App. No.
15/687,749
Granted
Oct 15, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image processing method for obtaining a panoramic image includes obtaining a first image and a second image by a camera unit, and obtaining location information between the viewpoints of the first image and the second image by a gyro. First features of the first image and second features of the second image are obtained according to a feature-capturing algorithm when pixel brightness differences exceed a threshold. Predicted features in the second image are obtained by the location information, and predicted features that exceed a predetermined distance from the second features are discarded. A panorama image is obtained by combining the first image and the second image according to the first features and the selected second features.

Claims (11)

1. An image processing method, for a panorama image, comprising:

capturing a first image and a second image by a camera unit;

obtaining a location information between the first image and the second image by a gyro;

obtaining a plurality of first features of the first image and a plurality of second features of the second image according to a feature-capturing algorithm when brightness difference between the first features and the second features exceed a threshold;

obtaining predicted features in the second image by the location information;

obtaining selected second features by discarding the predicted features exceeding a predetermined distance from the second features; and

producing the panorama image by combining the first image and the second image according to the first features and the selected second features;

splitting the first image as a plurality of first sub-images and the second image as a plurality second sub-images; and

updating the threshold of the feature-capturing algorithm on each of first sub-images according to numbers of the first features, raises the threshold when the number of the first features on the first sub-image is less than an average of the numbers of the first features on each of sub-images, reduces the threshold when the number of the first features on the first sub-image is more than the average of the numbers of the first features on each of sub-images.

2. The image processing method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising obtaining the distance between the second features and the corresponding predicted features according to Euclidean distance.

3. The image processing method as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising obtaining a rotation matrix between the first features and the corresponding second features according to Euler angles, and produces the panorama images according to the rotation matrix to combine the first image and the second image.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 12, 2025
From: AMBIT MICROSYSTEMS (SHANGHAI) LTD.
To: SHENZHEN FULIAN FUGUI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 073576/0837 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 28, 2017
From: LIAO, TZU-FONG
To: AMBIT MICROSYSTEMS (SHANGHAI) LTD.
Reel/Frame 043421/0050 →
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