Patent ID: 9697869
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. A system for generating multi-directional pictures, the system implemented at least in part on one or more computing devices, the system comprising: one or more processor circuits coupled to a memory unit; a picture-taking device, coupled to the one or more processor circuits, for capturing pictures; and an interface for guiding a user configured to: guide a user to capture one or more pictures from a first location of a represented object using the picture-taking device; and guide the user to capture one or more pictures from a second location of the represented object using the picture-taking device, wherein the one or more processor circuits are configured to: generate a first multi-directional picture including the one or more pictures from the first location; generate a second multi-directional picture including the one or more pictures from the second location; determine that at least a subset of a picture of the one or more pictures of the first multi-directional picture at least partially matches at least a subset of a resized picture of the one or more pictures of the second multi-directional picture to indicate a line of sight from the picture of the one or more pictures of the first multi-directional picture to the picture of the one or more pictures of the second multi-directional picture; add a link with the second multi-directional picture to the first multi-directional picture, the first multi-directional picture including one or more links; add a link with the first multi-directional picture to the second multi-directional picture, the second multi-directional picture including one or more links; and cause the memory unit to store the first and the second multi-directional pictures, wherein the memory unit stores at least a plurality of multi-directional pictures, the plurality of multi-directional pictures interlinked corresponding to a shape of the represented object to enable portrayal of the represented object of any shape.