This portfolio of inventions provides the tools for an advanced navigational system and panoramic virtual tours – technology that is incorporated in Google Street View.
Stanford researchers have created software to view panoramic videos from arbitrary viewpoints from separate non-overlapping geo-referenced panoramic video streams. Ths system can also synthesize missing panoramic images to provide the user with a full sequence.
This software system acquires panoramic video footage and makes the data viewable on a Web browser. The system enables a human editor to select specific subsequences of the data, and organize it, and have others view it.