Patents by Inventor Keith Noah Snavely
Keith Noah Snavely has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9531952Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to generating a composite image of an image of and another image that has a wider field of view. After an image is selected, the visual features in the image may be identified. Several images, such as panoramas, which have wider fields of view than an image captured by a camera, may be selected according to a comparison of the visual features in the image and the visual features of the larger images. The image may be aligned with each of the larger images, and at least one of these smaller-larger image pairs may be generated as a composite image.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Keith Noah Snavely, Pierre Georgel, Steven Maxwell Seitz
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Publication number: 20160286122Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to generating a composite image of an image of and another image that has a wider field of view. After an image is selected, the visual features in the image may be identified. Several images, such as panoramas, which have wider fields of view than an image captured by a camera, may be selected according to a comparison of the visual features in the image and the visual features of the larger images. The image may be aligned with each of the larger images, and at least one of these smaller-larger image pairs may be generated as a composite image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2015Publication date: September 29, 2016Inventors: Keith Noah Snavely, Pierre Georgel, Steven Maxwell Seitz
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Patent number: 9418482Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to identifying visited travel destinations from a set of digital images associated with users of a social networking system. For example, one or more computing devices provide access to an individual user's account, including the individual user and other users affiliated with the individual user via the social networking system. One or more digital images are received from a computing device associated with the individual user and from one or more second computing devices associated with the other users of the social networking system. From each digital image, a geo-location is determined for each digital image. The one or more computing devices display each geo-located image on a map at a position corresponding to the determined geo-location for the geo-located image.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Tsung-Lin Yang, Bryce Evans, Keith Noah Snavely, Yihui Xie, Andrew C. Gallagher
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Patent number: 8744214Abstract: Over the past few years there has been a dramatic proliferation of digital cameras, and it has become increasingly easy to share large numbers of photographs with many other people. These trends have contributed to the availability of large databases of photographs. Effectively organizing, browsing, and visualizing such .seas. of images, as well as finding a particular image, can be difficult tasks. In this paper, we demonstrate that knowledge of where images were taken and where they were pointed makes it possible to visualize large sets of photographs in powerful, intuitive new ways. We present and evaluate a set of novel tools that use location and orientation information, derived semi-automatically using structure from motion, to enhance the experience of exploring such large collections of images.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2013Date of Patent: June 3, 2014Assignees: Microsoft Corporation, University of WashingtonInventors: Keith Noah Snavely, Steven Maxwell Seitz, Richard Szeliski
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Publication number: 20130254666Abstract: Over the past few years there has been a dramatic proliferation of digital cameras, and it has become increasingly easy to share large numbers of photographs with many other people. These trends have contributed to the availability of large databases of photographs. Effectively organizing, browsing, and visualizing such .scas. of images, as well as finding a particular image, can be difficult tasks. In this paper, we demonstrate that knowledge of where images were taken and where they were pointed makes it possible to visualize large sets of photographs in powerful, intuitive new ways. We present and evaluate a set of novel tools that use location and orientation information, derived semi-automatically using structure from motion, to enhance the experience of exploring such large collections of images.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicants: University of Washington, Microsoft CorporationInventors: Keith Noah Snavely, Steven Maxwell Seitz, Richard Szeliski
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Patent number: 8515159Abstract: Over the past few years there has been a dramatic proliferation of digital cameras, and it has become increasingly easy to share large numbers of photographs with many other people. These trends have contributed to the availability of large databases of photographs. Effectively organizing, browsing, and visualizing such .seas. of images, as well as finding a particular image, can be difficult tasks. In this paper, we demonstrate that knowledge of where images were taken and where they were pointed makes it possible to visualize large sets of photographs in powerful, intuitive new ways. We present and evaluate a set of novel tools that use location and orientation information, derived semi-automatically using structure from motion, to enhance the experience of exploring such large collections of images.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2012Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignees: Microsoft Corporation, University of WashingtonInventors: Keith Noah Snavely, Steven Maxwell Seitz, Richard Szeliski
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Patent number: 8463071Abstract: Over the past few years there has been a dramatic proliferation of digital cameras, and it has become increasingly easy to share large numbers of photographs with many other people. These trends have contributed to the availability of large databases of photographs. Effectively organizing, browsing, and visualizing such .seas. of images, as well as finding a particular image, can be difficult tasks. In this paper, we demonstrate that knowledge of where images were taken and where they were pointed makes it possible to visualize large sets of photographs in powerful, intuitive new ways. We present and evaluate a set of novel tools that use location and orientation information, derived semi-automatically using structure from motion, to enhance the experience of exploring such large collections of images.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignees: Microsoft Corporation, University of WashingtonInventors: Keith Noah Snavely, Steven Maxwell Seitz, Richard Szeliski
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Publication number: 20120169734Abstract: Over the past few years there has been a dramatic proliferation of digital cameras, and it has become increasingly easy to share large numbers of photographs with many other people. These trends have contributed to the availability of large databases of photographs. Effectively organizing, browsing, and visualizing such .seas. of images, as well as finding a particular image, can be difficult tasks. In this paper, we demonstrate that knowledge of where images were taken and where they were pointed makes it possible to visualize large sets of photographs in powerful, intuitive new ways. We present and evaluate a set of novel tools that use location and orientation information, derived semi-automatically using structure from motion, to enhance the experience of exploring such large collections of images.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicants: University of Washington, Microsoft CorporationInventors: Keith Noah Snavely, Steven Maxwell Seitz, Richard Szeliski
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Publication number: 20120169770Abstract: Over the past few years there has been a dramatic proliferation of digital cameras, and it has become increasingly easy to share large numbers of photographs with many other people. These trends have contributed to the availability of large databases of photographs. Effectively organizing, browsing, and visualizing such .seas. of images, as well as finding a particular image, can be difficult tasks. In this paper, we demonstrate that knowledge of where images were taken and where they were pointed makes it possible to visualize large sets of photographs in powerful, intuitive new ways. We present and evaluate a set of novel tools that use location and orientation information, derived semi-automatically using structure from motion, to enhance the experience of exploring such large collections of images.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2012Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicants: University of Washington, Microsoft CorporationInventors: Keith Noah Snavely, Steven Maxwell Seitz, Richard Szeliski
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Patent number: 8160400Abstract: Over the past few years there has been a dramatic proliferation of digital cameras, and it has become increasingly easy to share large numbers of photographs with many other people. These trends have contributed to the availability of large databases of photographs. Effectively organizing, browsing, and visualizing such .seas. of images, as well as finding a particular image, can be difficult tasks. In this paper, we demonstrate that knowledge of where images were taken and where they were pointed makes it possible to visualize large sets of photographs in powerful, intuitive new ways. We present and evaluate a set of novel tools that use location and orientation information, derived semi-automatically using structure from motion, to enhance the experience of exploring such large collections of images.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2006Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Keith Noah Snavely, Steven Maxwell Seitz, Richard Szeliski