Patent ID: 7379071

Claim:
A computer implemented method for rendering a single frame of a synthesized image, comprising: generating a desired geometric component corresponding to a selected image for the single frame based on identified feature points from a set of representative images, where each image of the set has the identified feature points with a corresponding reference image geometric component, and wherein the geometric component is a dimensional vector of feature point positions; and generating the selected image for the single frame from a composite of the set of representative images based on the desired geometric component; wherein the selected image and each of the set of representative images comprises a plurality of subregions defined adjacent to each other in the single frame wherein adjacent subregions share a common boundary; and wherein generating a desired geometric component is performed for each subregion, and wherein the composite of the set of representative images is based on the corresponding desired geometric component for each subregion, and the selected image includes a synthesized subregion for each subregion based on the composite by projecting the desired geometric component into the convex hull of the corresponding reference image geometric components to obtain a set of coefficient, where a coefficient is associated with a representative image, and wherein a texture of the corresponding representative image as a function of each of the associated coefficients and blending at least some boundaries between adjacent subregions of the selected image order to generate the selected image.