Peter Pesti

US Patent:

20090232415, Sep 17, 2009

Filed:

Mar 13, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/047604

Inventors:

Matthew T. Uyttendaele - Seattle WA, US
Jonathan Ryan Howell - Seattle WA, US
Jeremy Eric Elson - Kirkland WA, US
Drew Edward Steedly - Redmond WA, US
Peter Pesti - Atlanta GA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06K 9/36

US Classification:

382284

Abstract:

Systems and methods are provided for the production of seamless, geo-referenced orthographic images that can comprise a composite of two or more underlying images. Illustratively, an exemplary image processing environment comprises an image processing engine and an instruction set comprising at least one instruction to instruct the image processing engine to process data representative of two or more images. Illustratively, the two or more images can comprise data representative of correspondence points between the two or more images and the underlying area (e.g., ground control points). Illustratively, the exemplary image processing engine can identify features that the overlapping photos have in common (e.g., feature match points) and place and re-project (e.g., distort) each of the two or more images to achieve a selected balance of correct position (e.g., based on ground control points) and seamless overlap (e.g., based on feature match points) which can be composited into a single image.