Patent Document ID: 8446456
Application ID: 11852224
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for detecting an intersection as displayed in two intersecting panoramic image sequences, the method comprising: receiving data representing two intersecting panoramic image sequences of an identical location captured at different times and from different directions, wherein the two intersecting panoramic image sequences each include a plurality of video frames depicting an image of the intersection between the intersecting panoramic image sequences; detecting, using one or more microprocessors, frame images that are most similar from each of the intersecting panoramic image sequences using only the data representing the two intersecting panoramic image sequences, wherein detecting the most similar frame images includes segmenting each of the plurality of frames into at least one strip, wherein the plurality of frames are divided into rows and at least one strip is associated with each row, determining an identifying value for each strip, determining, based on the identifying value for each strip, a distance measurement between strips in corresponding rows in each of the plurality of frames to determine which of the plurality of frames from the two intersecting panoramic image sequences are closest to each other; and detecting, based on the frame images that are most similar, an intersection frame from each of the intersecting panoramic image sequences, wherein the intersection frame includes the frame images that are most similar from each of the intersecting panoramic image sequence.