This portfolio of inventions provides the tools for an advanced navigational system and panoramic virtual tours – technology that is incorporated in Google Street View.
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.
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.