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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2018
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited, London, GB;
Andrew James Bigos, Staines upon Thames, GB;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe Limited, London, GB;
Abstract
A method of generating a model for 3D printing, includes selecting a target object within a virtual environment; sampling the target object to form a point cloud, the point cloud comprising points corresponding to an outer surface of the target object and also one or more internal features of the target object; rendering the point cloud from a plurality of viewpoints using voxels in place of the points in the point cloud; detecting which voxels and hence which points of the cloud were rendered over the plurality of renders; forming a surface-only point cloud comprising those points of the cloud that were rendered; and generating a model for 3D printing based on the surface-only point cloud.