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US 2019/0156459 A1Published application
Method to generate additional level of detail when zooming in on an image
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorMichael Chen
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Abstract
Methods and systems are described for generating additional levels of detail when zooming in on an image. A viewer may desire to zoom in on an image to see a portion of the image in greater detail. This portion of the image may be analyzed to determine if zoom enhancement is necessary. If it is determined that zoom enhancement is necessary, the zoomed region may be matched to a replacement texture. The replacement texture may be used to enhance the image by replacing some or all of the image data.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device, an input indicative of a zoom region for an image;
- determining a first characteristic of first image data associated with the zoom region in the image;
- determining, based on the first characteristic, to generate enhanced second image data corresponding to the first image data;
- and
- in response to determining to generate enhanced second image data corresponding to the first image data:
- determining a second characteristic of the first image data;
- searching a texture database for textures corresponding to the second characteristic;
- selecting a first texture based on the searching;
- and
- combining the first texture and the first image data to produce the enhanced second image data.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device, an input indicative of a zoom region for an image, wherein the zoom region is associated with first image data of the image;
- segmenting at least a portion of the first image data into a plurality of segments;
- generating enhanced image data corresponding to the first image data by, for each respective segment of the plurality of segments:
- determining a first characteristic of the respective segment;
- searching a texture database for textures corresponding to the first characteristic;
- selecting a texture based on the searching;
- and
- combining the texture and the respective segment to produce an enhanced segment corresponding to the respective segment.
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A method comprising:
- determining, by a computing device, a first characteristic of a first texture mapped to a virtual object in a three-dimensional scene;
- determining, based on the first characteristic, to enhance the virtual object;
- in response to determining to enhance the virtual object:
- determining a second characteristic of the first texture;
- selecting, from a texture database, a second texture corresponding to the second characteristic;
- generating a third texture that is based on the first texture and based on the second texture;
- and
- mapping the third texture to the virtual object.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.