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erik goetze wrote:
In today's VRlog.com I explore a what if:
What if one of these companies that has a fisheye patent decides to do a
"SCO"
on all those photographers using 8mm lenses and infringing software?
I may be wrong, but the patented technology seems to be not that
much about "stitching" of multiple images (there's got to be
enough prior art to invalidate any claim to this - think "1920",
and the whole ipix software is in fact about avoiding any
stitching!), but worse, the "real-time extraction of a
perspective corrected view". Which would make ANY interactive 3-D
correcting viewer a potential target under the "doctrine of
equivalence", including, but not limited to, QuicktimeVR.
<sarcasm?>
But hey, only 9 more years and 8 months to go until patent '667
ceases to be valid... we've outwaited LZW, sure we can outwait
ipix...
Well, good thing i haven't spend any money on the Oxaal thing so
far. Good thing i don't do interactive content any more... :-(
</sarcasm?>
Markus
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