Patent ID: 9007430
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06F,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A system for creating a navigable, panoramic three-dimensional virtual reality environment, comprising: a wide field of view optical imaging device having at least two optical imaging elements configured to image at least two different viewpoints of a scene, the imaging device comprising at least one optical imaging detector configured to record first and second video image data of the different viewpoints of the scene, respectively; a tracking device configured to track the movement of a user; a position detector disposed in communication with the tracking device to receive tracking data from the tracking device and configured to determine a direction of view of the user; an image renderer disposed in communication with the optical imaging device to receive the first and second video image data and disposed in communication with the position detector to receive the direction of view, the image renderer configured to compute respective regions of interest of a portion of the first and second video image data based on the user's direction of view, the rendered comprising a computer usable medium having a non-transitory computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for rendering the first and second video image data to create a panoramic three-dimensional virtual reality environment comprising the steps of creating first and second wireframe spheres, and transforming each of the first and second video images by wrapping the first and second video data onto the first and second wireframe spheres respectively; and a head mounted display disposed in communication with the image renderer to receive image data associated with the respective regions of interest and configured to display the image data associated with the respective regions of interest the user, whereby a navigable, panoramic three-dimensional virtual reality environment is created.