PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16042309
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["345", "634000"]

Abstract:
A method and system for creating a transition between a first scene and a second scene on a computer system display, simulating motion. The method includes determining a transformation that maps the first scene into the second scene. Motion between the scenes is simulated by displaying transitional images that include a transitional scene based on a transitional object in the first scene and in the second scene. The rendering of the transitional object evolves according to specified transitional parameters as the transitional images are displayed. A viewer receives a sense of the connectedness of the scenes from the transitional images. Virtual tours of broad areas, such as cityscapes, can be created using inter-scene transitions among a complex network of pairs of scenes.

Claim (Index 11):
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer code thereon for creating a transition between a first scene and a second scene simulating motion, the first scene observed from a first viewpoint including a first digital image having color data and the second scene observed from a second viewpoint including a second digital image having color data, the computer code comprising:\n computer code for determining, for each digital image, a directional vector corresponding to a pan and tilt of a camera that captured the digital image and indicating an orientation of the scene corresponding to the digital image with respect to a coordinate system local to the digital image; computer code for transforming, for each digital image, corresponding digital image data to rotate the digital image so that the directional vector of the transformed digital image is parallel to a particular axis of a global coordinate system; computer code for further transforming digital image data of at least one of the transformed digital images by (i) rotating the at least one transformed digital image so that the directional vector is parallel with the directional vector of another transformed digital image and (ii) translating the at least one transformed digital image to align the directional vectors, thereby achieving alignment of corresponding features in each of the transformed digital images; computer code for defining a common ground plane shared by the first transformed digital image and the second transformed digital image; computer code for defining a footprint of structures within the first transformed digital image and the second transformed digital image on the ground plane; computer code for extruding from the footprint geometries, wherein the footprint and the extruded geometries define a three-dimensional geometry representative of the structures; computer code for determining a view position along a path and a corresponding orientation for a transitional image in relation to the three dimensional geometry; and computer code for projectively mapping color data from the first digital image and the second digital image based on the three-dimensional geometry and the view position to create a transitional image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87143
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14969669', '11936990', '14942620', '15798873', '15832653']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6682300073625224
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6093657831722384
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.662343584943494
- Mean Citation Score: 318.141628
- Max Citation Score: 563.0662
- Similarity Product: 515.6490313428163

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

Dataset: test