Image display apparatus and method of displaying image
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJong-min BAEK, Young-hyun KIM, Se-hyun KIM, Kwan-sik YANG, Jae-young YOU, Kil-soo CHOI
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Abstract
An image display apparatus and a method of displaying an image are provided. The image display apparatus includes: a display; a graphics processing unit (GPU); and a processor configured to: determine a copy region of a planar-format image based on information regarding a current viewpoint, control the GPU to generate a sphere-format image by mapping an image corresponding to the copy region to a sphere and to generate an output image by rendering the sphere-format image, and control the display to display the output image.
Claims20
An image display apparatus comprising:
- a display;
- a graphics processing unit (GPU);
- and
- a processor configured to:
- determine a copy region of a planar-format image based on information regarding a current viewpoint,
- control the GPU to generate a sphere-format image by mapping an image corresponding to the copy region to a sphere and to generate an output image by rendering the sphere-format image, and
- control the display to display the output image.
A method of displaying an image, the method comprising:
- determining a copy region of a planar-format image based on information regarding a current viewpoint;
- generating a sphere-format image by mapping an image corresponding to the copy region to a sphere;
- generating an output image by rendering the sphere-format image;
- and
- displaying the output image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.