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

Claim 28:
29. An article of manufacture comprising one or more computer readable media having computer-readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the computing device to carry out functions comprising:
providing, at least in part through a display of the computing device, a panorama capture user interface (UI);
receiving, through the panorama capture UI, a selection to capture images through which to create a panorama image, the received selection effective to cause the computing device to begin an image-capture process, the image-capture process capturing images through which to create the panorama image, the image-capture process having a first portion capturing first images;
presenting, 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;
presenting, 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;
presenting, 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 computing device, a desired change to an angular position of the computing device in three dimensions;
receiving, 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
passing the captured images to an image processor effective to create the panorama image.