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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 22:01, Michael Scherer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:misc@zarb.org">misc@zarb.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 02:04 +0200, Philippe DIDIER a écrit :<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> It's in the title !<br>
> The use of the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorythm<br>
> allowing to find control points to build panorama with several pictures<br>
> is restricted by a US patent... this algorythm is the basis of<br>
> autopano-sift and autopano-sift-C !<br>
><br>
> hugin (a pano builder program) brings some patents problems with some of<br>
> its tools : this one is an optional tool, and we can use hugin without<br>
> it... mostly since 2010.4 version of hugin which ships its own patent<br>
> free control point generator which is quite as good as autopano ;)<br>
><br>
><br>
> the other rpm bringing patent problem is libpano13 (required by hugin) :<br>
> two versions exist yet for mageia:<br>
> - one in core repository with a limited field of view (160°) and giving<br>
> this limit to hugin (no patent problem though !)<br>
> - one in tainted repository without limitation (but infringing US and<br>
> Japan patents) allowing to build 360° panorama<br>
<br>
</div></div>What are the patents number ?<br></blockquote><div><br>I was under the impression that <a href="http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6711293">http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6711293</a> is related to it, but I am not sure.<br clear="all">
</div></div><br>-- <br>Eugeni Dodonov<br><a href="http://eugeni.dodonov.net/" target="_blank">http://eugeni.dodonov.net/</a><br>
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