Patent Document ID: 20180027178
Application ID: 15357963
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for mapping spherical images to a 2D projection of a cubic representation of a spherical field of view (FOV) comprising: capturing a first hemispherical image and a second hemispherical image, each hemispherical image including an overlap portion, the overlap potions capturing a same field of view, the two hemispherical images collectively comprising a spherical FOV and separated along a longitudinal plane; mapping a modified first hemispherical image to a first portion of the 2D projection of a cubic image, the modified first hemispherical image including a non-overlap portion of the first hemispherical image; mapping a modified second hemispherical image to a second portion of the 2D projection of the cubic image, the modified second hemispherical image including a non-overlap portion of the second hemispherical image; mapping the overlap portions of the first hemispherical image and the second hemispherical image to the 2D projection of the cubic image; and encoding the 2D projection of the cubic image to generate an encoded image representative of the spherical FOV.