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 12):
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored contents that cause one or more computing systems to perform automated operations, the automated operations including at least:\n presenting, by the one or more computing systems and to a user, a first panorama image that is taken from a first location and includes a view of a second location in a first 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; determining, by the one or more computing systems, and in response to an instruction from the user to present a second panorama image taken from the second location, a degree of overlap between a current subset of the first panorama image that is being displayed to the user and the first subset of the first panorama image that includes the view of the second location; selecting, by the one or more computing systems and based at least in part on the determined degree of overlap, and from multiple types of transition sequences, a transition sequence type to use to simulate moving from the current subset of the first panorama image to a second subset of the second panorama image in a view direction away from the first location; and presenting, by the one or more computing systems, and to the user over a period of time, an image transition sequence of the selected transition sequence type, wherein the presenting of the image transition sequence includes 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 includes 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 second subset of the second panorama image by progressively increasing a relative proportion of the second 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: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12274298', '11754267', '15649434', '15649427', '12245771']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6988281445715594
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4812692625097141
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6770722563653748
- Mean Citation Score: 138.64282199999997
- Max Citation Score: 145.1439
- Similarity Product: 113.6877624879241

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