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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 26, 2016
Applicant:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Benjamin David Eckart, Pittsburgh, PA (US);

Kihwan Kim, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Alejandro Jose Troccoli, San Jose, CA (US);

Jan Kautz, Lexington, MA (US);

Assignee:

NVIDIA Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/50 (2006.01); G06F 17/18 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/5009 (2013.01); G06F 17/18 (2013.01); G06K 9/00986 (2013.01); G06K 9/6219 (2013.01); G06K 9/6277 (2013.01); G06K 9/6282 (2013.01); G06F 2217/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for generating a Gaussian mixture model hierarchy. The method includes the steps of receiving point cloud data defining a plurality of points; defining a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) hierarchy that includes a number of mixels, each mixel encoding parameters for a probabilistic occupancy map; and adjusting the parameters for one or more probabilistic occupancy maps based on the point cloud data utilizing a number of iterations of an Expectation-Maximum (EM) algorithm.


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