Patent ID: 11949990
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 22:
23. An apparatus comprising:
a camera;
a display;
a processor; and
computer-readable storage media having stored instructions that, responsive to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
provide, at least in part through the display, a panorama capture user interface (UI); receive, through the panorama capture UI, a selection to capture, using the camera, images through which to create a panorama image, the received selection effective to cause the processor to begin an image-capture process that captures images through which to create the panorama image, the image-capture process comprising a first portion configured to capture first images;
present, through the panorama capture UI and on the display, at least one early-received image of the first images captured during the first portion of the image-capture process and dropping one or more later-received images of the first images, the early-received image having been captured prior to the one or more later-received images;
present, through the panorama capture UI and on the display, a current image in a background behind at least a portion of the images presented through the panorama capture UI and on the display;
present, through the panorama capture UI and on the display, a visual guide, the visual guide superimposed over at least a portion of the images presented through the panorama capture UI and on the display, the visual guide configured to indicate, to a user of the apparatus, a desired change to an angular position of the apparatus in three dimensions;
receive, through the panorama capture UI, at least one of a selection to cease the image-capture process or a selection to create the panorama image; and
pass the captured images to an image processor effective to create the panorama image.