Patent ID: 6625309
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
A method for partitioning a group of images, each of which overlaps, or is overlapped by, at least on other image in the group of images, the group of images including a first, bottom-most image, at least one middle image, and a last, top-most image, said method comprising:partitioning a non-overlapped portion of the first image into a plurality of rectangles based on the position of a second image immediately in front of, and partially overlapping, the first image to form a first set of visible rectangles; forming new sets of visible rectangles by iteratively partitioning a current set of visible rectangles based on the position of a next image in the group of images that is immediately in front of, and partially overlaps, the current set of visible rectangles, until a final set of visible rectangles is formed based on the position of the top-most image; and transmitting only the final set of visible rectangles.