Joshua P Podolak from Teaneck, NJ, age 49

Transitioning Between Top-Down Maps And Local Navigation Of Reconstructed 3-D Scenes
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US Patent:

20110187723, Aug 4, 2011
Filed:

Feb 4, 2010
Appl. No.:

12/699896
Inventors:

Billy Chen - Bellevue WA, US
Eyal Ofek - Redmond WA, US
David Maxwell Gedye - Seattle WA, US
Jonathan Robert Dughi - Bainbridge Island WA, US
Mark Ruane Dawson - Sammamish WA, US
Joshua Podolak - Seattle WA, US
Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA
International Classification:

G06T 15/70
US Classification:

345473
Abstract:

Technologies are described herein for transitioning between a top-down map of a reconstructed structure within a 3-D scene and an associated local-navigation display. An application transitions between the top-down map and the local-navigation display by animating a view in a display window over a period of time while interpolating camera parameters from values representing a starting camera view to values representing an ending camera view. In one embodiment, the starting camera view is the top-down map view and the ending camera view is the camera view associated with a target photograph. In another embodiment, the starting camera view is the camera view associated with a currently-viewed photograph in the local-navigation display and the ending camera view is the top-down map.

Transitioning Between Top-Down Maps And Local Navigation Of Reconstructed 3-D Scenes
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US Patent:

20140098107, Apr 10, 2014
Filed:

Dec 10, 2013
Appl. No.:

14/102127
Inventors:

- Redmond WA, US
Eyal Ofek - Redmond WA, US
David Maxwell Gedye - Seattle WA, US
Jonathan Robert Dughi - Bainbridge Island WA, US
Mark Ruane Dawson - Seattle WA, US
Joshua Podolak - Seattle WA, US
Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA
International Classification:

G06T 13/20
G06T 7/00
US Classification:

345473
Abstract:

Technologies are described herein for transitioning between a top-down map display of a reconstructed structure within a 3-D scene and an associated local-navigation display. An application transitions between the top-down map display and the local-navigation display by animating a view in a display window over a period of time while interpolating camera parameters from values representing a starting camera view to values representing an ending camera view. In one embodiment, the starting camera view is the top-down map display view and the ending camera view is the camera view associated with a target photograph. In another embodiment, the starting camera view is the camera view associated with a currently-viewed photograph in the local-navigation display and the ending camera view is the top-down map display.

Joshua P Podolak