Camera selection based on occlusion of field of view

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9154697-B2
Application number	US-201314098796-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 6, 2013
Priority date	Dec 6, 2013
Publication date	Oct 6, 2015
Grant date	Oct 6, 2015

Abstract

An example method involves: (a) receiving image data that is generated by each of a plurality of image-capture systems, wherein the plurality of image-capture systems are all arranged on a given device and all are oriented in substantially the same direction, (b) analyzing, by the computing system, image data that is generated by one or more of the image-capture systems to select image data from at least one of the image-capture systems having a field-of-view that is not substantially occluded by an unintended element, and (c) storing the selected image data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a computing system, image data of a scene that is generated by each of a plurality of image-capture systems at substantially the same time, wherein the plurality of image-capture systems are all arranged on a given device and all are oriented in substantially the same direction;
analyzing, by the computing system, the image data of the scene that is generated by two or more of the image-capture systems to select image dat…

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Geiss Ryan
• Lewkow Roman

Classifications

• G06T7/0002 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04N23/673

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/63

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/45

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/62

  Electricity · mapped topic