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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2014
A9.com, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Himanshu Arora, San Jose, CA (US);
Arnab Sanat Kumar Dhua, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sunil Ramesh, San Jose, CA (US);
Chen Fang, West Lebanon, NH (US);
A9.com, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments provide for the generation of 3D models of objects. For example, depth data and color image data can be captured from viewpoints around an object using a sensor. A camera having a higher resolution can simultaneously capture image data of the object. Features between images captured by the image sensor and the camera can be extracted and compared to determine a mapping between the camera and the image. Once the mapping between the camera and the image sensor is determined, a second mapping between adjacent viewpoints can be determined for each image around the object. In this example, each viewpoint overlaps with an adjacent viewpoint and features extracted from two overlapping viewpoints are matched to determine their relative alignment. Accordingly, a 3D point cloud can be generated and the images captured by the camera can be projected on the surface of the 3D point cloud to generate the 3D model.