US 12,192,439 B2 · Method and device for processing image content

Abstract

A method and system are provided for processing image content. In one embodiment the method comprises receiving a plurality of captured contents showing same scene as captured by one or more cameras having a different focal length and depth maps and generating a consensus cube by obtaining depth map estimations from said received contents. The visibility of different objects in then analysed to create a soft visibility cube that provides visibility information about each content. A color cube is then generated by using information from the consensus and soft visibility cube. The color cube is then used to combine different received contents and generate a single image for the plurality of contents received.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

obtaining a virtual color cube representing a volumetric scene from the point of view of a virtual camera, the virtual color cube comprising slices of the volumetric scene at different depths, each slice encoding a 2D array of pixels, wherein each pixel in each slice comprises a color specification and an alpha value;
partitioning each slice of the virtual color cube into tiles, each tile comprising a rectangular subset of the pixels of the slice;
and
constructing an atlas of significant tiles, wherein constructing the atlas further comprises storing the pixels of an excluded tile in a residual image at a position corresponding to the position occupied by the tile in its original slice of the virtual color cube.

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Method and device for processing image content

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