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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2020
Filed:
May. 10, 2018
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Srinivasa Narasimhan, McDonald, PA (US);
Herman Herman, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Jaime Bourne, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
D. W. Wilson Hamilton, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
A system for creating a near-spherical point cloud of RGBD data includes one or more sensing units for providing depth data, each sensing unit having a stereo pair of sensors fitted with the wide-angle lens from which a one-dimensional line of pixels is read, and one or more lasers for illuminating the single line of pixels, the sensing units mounted on a spinning platform. The spinning platform is mounted on the base having a plurality of cameras mounted therein for providing 360-degree RGB data.