Patent Document ID: 8451319
Application ID: 13375219
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for removing redundancy of panoramic images comprising the steps of: (a) specifying respective locations of multiple panoramic images by referring to respective shooting places of the multiple panoramic images; (b) recognizing a specific object included in each of at least two panoramic images as being the same object by referring to the respective locations of the multiple panoramic images and respective directions of the specific object therein; and (c) determining at least one image of the specific object to be a reference image for the specific object, wherein the determined at least one image has the highest degree of precision in an image matching process among all the object images which are recognized as the specific object, wherein, at the step (b), if a first object considered as the specific object in a first panoramic image is displayed on a half line stretched from a shooting place of the first panoramic image to a location of the first object and a second object considered as the specific object in a second panoramic image is displayed on a half line stretched from a shooting place of the second panoramic image to a location of the second object, the first object and the second object are finally determined to be the same specific object.