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 3):
The computer-implemented method of  claim 2  wherein the generating of the visual transition sequence further includes selecting, by the computing device and based at least in part on the determined amount of the angle exceeding the defined threshold, to use a rotate-zoom type of transition that includes the rotating and zooming for the first period of time and the further rotating and further zooming during the second period of time, and wherein the method further comprises, after the displaying of the visual transition sequence:\n modifying, by the computing device and in response to one or more further user interactions, a direction of view for the second panorama image to cause display of an additional area of the building that includes a third location from which a third panorama image was previously taken; and \n generating, by the computing device, a second visual transition sequence that simulates movement from the second location to the third location, including:\n determining, by the computing device, and relative to a second direct view to the third location in a straight line from the second location, an amount of a second angle between the modified direction of view for the second panorama image and the second direct view, and that the determined amount of the second angle does not exceed the defined threshold for use of zooming without rotation in the second visual transition sequence; \n selecting, by the computing device and based at least in part on the determined amount of the second angle not exceeding the defined threshold, a center-zoom type of transition to use for the second visual transition sequence that is different from the rotate-zoom type of transition used for the visual transition sequence; \n selecting, by the computing device, the modified direction of view for the second panorama image as a beginning of the second visual transition sequence, and a portion of the third panorama image that is in a direction of view away from the second location as an end of the second visual transition sequence; \n defining, by the computing device, and based at least in part on the selected center-zoom type of transition, a third period of time for zooming without rotating that includes progressively increasing an amount of zoom in the second panorama image, resulting in a zoomed portion of second first panorama image centered on the second direct view to the third location; and \n defining, by the computing device and based at least in part on the selected center-zoom type of transition, a fourth period of time for blending that begins with the zoomed portion of the second panorama image and that includes progressively blending the selected portion of the third panorama image over the fourth period of time while performing further zooming from a zoomed-out version of the selected portion of the third panorama image, resulting in the selected portion of the third panorama image at an end of the fourth period of time; and \n \n displaying, by the computing device, and to the user over an amount of time that includes the third and fourth periods of time, an animation of the second visual transition sequence to simulate the movement from the second location to the third location, and ending with a display of the selected portion of the third panorama image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.96341
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12274298', '11754267', '15649434', '15649427', '12245771']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6975073777125891
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4870933186630803
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6764659718076382
- Mean Citation Score: 138.64282199999997
- Max Citation Score: 145.1439
- Similarity Product: 108.88470927186012

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