Patent ID: 8624902

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a computer processing device; and a memory configured to execute computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the computer processing device perform an animated transition between a top-down map display generated from a 3-D point cloud computed from a collection of photographs and a local-navigation display showing a photograph from the collection of photographs, wherein the starting camera view is associated with a currently-viewed photograph in the local-navigation display, the ending camera view is associated with the top-down map display, and interpolating the camera parameters comprises interpolate camera position and orientation parameters of the camera view in a first stage from starting values associated with the currently-viewed photograph to ending values associated with the top-down map display; and interpolate a field-of-view parameter of the camera view in a second stage from a starting value associated with the currently-viewed photograph to an ending value associated with the top-down map display.