Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 02:04 +0200, Philippe DIDIER a écrit : > It's in the title ! > The use of the Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) algorythm > allowing to find control points to build panorama with several pictures > is restricted by a US patent... this algorythm is the basis of > autopano-sift and autopano-sift-C ! > > hugin (a pano builder program) brings some patents problems with some of > its tools : this one is an optional tool, and we can use hugin without > it... mostly since 2010.4 version of hugin which ships its own patent > free control point generator which is quite as good as autopano ;) > > > the other rpm bringing patent problem is libpano13 (required by hugin) : > two versions exist yet for mageia: > - one in core repository with a limited field of view (160°) and giving > this limit to hugin (no patent problem though !) > - one in tainted repository without limitation (but infringing US and > Japan patents) allowing to build 360° panorama
What are the patents number ? -- Michael Scherer