PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15950881
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["345", "419000"]

Abstract:
Techniques are described for, given two images taken at two viewing locations, generating and presenting an image transition sequence that simulates viewer movement between the viewing locations, such as without using information about relative distance between the viewing locations and other depth information to objects in an environment around the viewing locations. The start and end images for an image transition sequence may be part of panorama images acquired at the viewing locations, and generating of the image transition sequence may include selecting and using one of multiple types of transition sequences to perform rotating (e.g., from a start image's viewing direction to face toward the viewing location for the end image), zooming (e.g., to simulate moving forward), and/or blending of the end image with a modified version of the start image, with the resulting image transition sequence played as a video or other animation.

Claim (Index 21):
A system comprising:\n one or more hardware processors of one or more computing systems; and one or more memories with stored instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more hardware processors, cause the one or more computing systems to perform automated operations to implement at least some functionality of an image locations transition manager system, including at least:\n presenting, to a user, an initial subset of a first panorama image, wherein the first panorama image is taken from a first location and includes a view of a second location in a corresponding subset of the first panorama image, to allow the user to modify a view direction in the first panorama image to display different subsets of the first panorama image; \n determining, in response to an indication to present a second panorama image taken from the second location, an amount of difference between a current view direction of the first panorama image and an inter-panorama view direction from the first panorama image to the corresponding subset that includes the view of the second location; \n selecting, based at least in part on the determined amount of difference, and from multiple types of transition sequences, a transition sequence type to use to simulate moving from a current subset of the first panorama image resulting from the current view direction to a subset of the second panorama image in a view direction away from the first location; and \n presenting, to the user over a period of time, an image transition sequence of the selected transition sequence type, including performing zooming during a first subset of the period of time that begins with the current subset of the first panorama image and progressively increases an amount of zoom to reach an enlarged portion of the current subset of the first panorama image, and including performing blending during a second subset of the period of time that begins with the enlarged portion of the current subset of the first panorama image and changes to the subset of the second panorama image by progressively increasing a relative proportion of the subset of the second panorama image that is shown.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96341
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12274298', '11754267', '15649434', '15649427', '12245771']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6736860552168409
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4770597961355795
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6540234293087147
- Mean Citation Score: 138.64282199999997
- Max Citation Score: 145.1439
- Similarity Product: 115.268692022717

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test