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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2016
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Greg Joseph Klein, Mountain View, CA (US);
Arshan Poursohi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sumit Jain, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel Aden, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Examples relating to the detection of rigid shaped objects are described herein. An example method may involve a computing system determining a first point cloud representation of an environment at a first time using a depth sensor positioned within the environment. The computing system may also determine a second point cloud representation of the environment at a second time using the depth sensor. This way, the computing system may detect a change in position of a rigid shape between a first position in the first point cloud representation and a second position in the second point cloud representation. Based on the detected change in position of the rigid shape, the computing system may determine that the rigid shape is representative of an object in the environment and store information corresponding to the object.