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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2015
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventor:
Michael John Schoenberg, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 27/01 (2006.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/205 (2013.01); G02B 27/017 (2013.01); G02B 2027/014 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0127 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0138 (2013.01); G02B 2027/0178 (2013.01);
Abstract
A 3D voxel grid of an environment is generated, with a signed value assigned to each voxel representative of that voxel's distance from a nearest surface. For each subset of the 3D voxel grid comprising a surface, an initial surface mesh is generated. As new depth information is received, an updated surface is generated only for those subsets of the 3D voxel grid that exhibit greater than threshold change in signed values over time.