Patent Document ID: 7620909
Application ID: 10789508
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An interactive seamer apparatus for seaming two or more single view images vertically or horizontally into a panoramic image, comprising: a user interface comprising: a first display area configured to display: a panoramic image generated from the two or more single view images having overlapping portions, each pixel in the overlapping portions encompassed by an outlined area having an opacity value that is determined by the location of the pixel in the outlined area and a predetermined opacity curve; an array of two or more control points superimposed within an area in the panoramic image corresponding to an interior of a selected single view image for manually warping parts of the panoramic image corresponding to the selected single view image by moving the control points, the interior of the selected single view image excluding four corners of the selected single view image; a second display area configured to display a selected single view image projected from the panoramic image, opacity values of pixels in the overlapping portions manually adjusted by changing a size of an outlined area of the selected single view image in the second display area; a third display area configured to display values of parameters; and a fourth display area configured to display a perspectively corrected view of the selected single view image, the fourth display displayed simultaneously with the first display area; and an image seamer configured to seam the two or more single view images vertically or horizontally based on locations of the control points and the size of the outlined area in the second display area.