Method to generate additional level of detail when zooming in on an image

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, an input indicative of a zoom region for an image;

determining a first characteristic of first image data associated with the zoom region in the image;

determining, based on the first characteristic, to generate enhanced second image data corresponding to the first image data; and

based on determining to generate enhanced second image data corresponding to the first image data:

determining, based on an association with the first characteristic, a second characteristic of the first image data;

searching a texture database for textures corresponding to the second characteristic;

selecting a first texture based on the searching; and

combining the first texture and the first image data to produce the enhanced second image data.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first characteristic of the first image data is a virtual distance in a three-dimensional scene that is measured from a virtual camera to a virtual object.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first characteristic is a measure of detail of the first image data.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first characteristic is a zoom ratio that is based on a dimension of the zoom region and that is based on a dimension of the image, and

wherein the determining to generate enhanced second image data corresponding to the first image data comprises determining that the zoom ratio is greater than a predetermined threshold.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first texture is a texture comprising vector data.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the combining the first texture and the first image data comprises replacing at least a portion of the first image data with the first texture.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the combining the first texture and the first image data comprises:

adjusting an opacity of the first texture; and

overlaying the first texture over the first image data.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the combining the first texture and the first image data comprises:

determining a third characteristic of the first image data; and

adjusting a characteristic of the first texture to correspond to the third characteristic of the first image data.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second characteristic of the first image data is a local binary pattern.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the image is a frame of a video sequence.

11. A method comprising:

receiving, by a computing device, an input indicative of a zoom region for an image, wherein the zoom region is associated with first image data of the image;

segmenting at least a portion of the first image data into a plurality of segments;

generating enhanced image data corresponding to the first image data by, for each respective segment of the plurality of segments:

determining a first characteristic of the respective segment;

searching a texture database for textures corresponding to the first characteristic;

selecting a texture based on the searching; and

combining the texture and the respective segment to produce an enhanced segment corresponding to the respective segment.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein image data content corresponding to the plurality of segments comprises all of the first image data.

13. The method of claim 11 , wherein the generating enhanced image data corresponding to the first image data further comprises, for each respective segment of the plurality of segments:

combining the enhanced segment corresponding to the respective segment with the first image data.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the image is a frame of a video sequence.

15. The method of claim 11 , wherein the texture database contains textures derived from the image.

16. A method comprising:

determining, by a computing device, a first characteristic of a first texture mapped to a virtual object in a three-dimensional scene;

determining, based on the first characteristic, to enhance the virtual object;

based on determining to enhance the virtual object:

determining a second characteristic of the first texture;

selecting, from a texture database, a second texture corresponding to the second characteristic;

generating a third texture that is based on the first texture and based on the second texture; and

mapping the third texture to the virtual object.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the first characteristic is a virtual distance in the three-dimensional scene that is measured from a virtual camera to the virtual object.

18. The method of claim 16 , wherein the first characteristic is determined from metadata associated with the first texture.

19. The method of claim 16 , wherein the selecting, from a texture database, a second texture corresponding to the second characteristic comprises:

determining that the texture database does not contain a second texture corresponding to the second characteristic;

generating a generated texture corresponding to the second characteristic; and

adding the generated texture to the texture database.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the generating the generated texture corresponding to the second characteristic comprises:

generating a vector representation of the first texture;

scaling the vector representation of the first texture to produce a scaled vector representation of the first texture; and

generating the generated texture based on the scaled vector representation of the first texture.