Method and system for creating, receiving and playing multiview images, and related mobile communication device

摘要

A method and a system for creating, receiving and playing multi-view images are provided, and a related mobile communication device is also provided. A service server in the system receives images collected by the devices and encodes the received images based at least partly on redundancy of the images. The service server converts the received images into the multi-view images and sends them to a client terminal.

主权项

1. A method for providing a multi-view image service, the method comprising:
receiving images of parts of a specific target captured at various angles; estimating locations of devices capturing the images where the images were captured by comparing image patterns in each of the images; determining a redundancy among the received images; in response to comparing the determined redundancy and a threshold value, encoding the image data for at least one of the received images using a multi-view codec; creating at least one multi-view image by integrating the received images based at least partially on the estimated locations of the devices; determining whether a receiving type of the at least one multi-view image is a downloading type or a streaming type in response to a request for transmitting the at least one multi-view image; if the receiving type is the downloading type, transmitting, to a mobile communication device, the at least one multi-view image; and if the receiving type is the streaming type, transmitting, to the mobile communication device, a single multi-view image among the at least one multi-view image in response to request for the single multi-view image.