Patent Document ID: 8619071
Application ID: 12211596
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. One or more processor-accessible tangible media comprising processor-executable instructions for image view synthesis, wherein the processor-executable instructions, when executed, direct a device to perform acts comprising: registering an image to at least one reference model; selecting a source block of one or more pixels of visual data from the image with regard to a destination block of the reference model based on a depth criterion and a color criterion; wherein each pixel of each source block includes two or more depth levels, with each depth level having a separate color assignment; wherein the color assignment of a frontmost layer of each pixel is the same color as a corresponding pixel of the image, and wherein a color assignment of each subsequent depth layer for each pixel is synthesized via multi-resolution texture synthesis; applying each pixel of the source block of visual data from the image to the destination block of the reference model using a computed distance of the reference model to a position of a camera used to capture the image, and using the pixel color assignment from the depth layer closest to the computed distance to produce an image-augmented model; wherein applying each pixel further comprises decreasing a proportional amount of the visual data of the source block from the image that is applied to the destination block of the reference model as a novel perspective viewpoint corresponding to a novel image view deviates further from a capture perspective viewpoint corresponding to the image; and synthesizing the novel image view using the image-augmented model.