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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2020
Faro Technologies, Inc., Lake Mary, FL (US);
Oliver Zweigle, Stuttgart, DE;
Aleksej Frank, Kornwestheim, DE;
Joao Santos, Kornwestheim, DE;
Ahmad Ramadneh, Kornwestheim, DE;
FARO TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Lake Mary, FL (US);
Abstract
A system and method of automatic re-localization of a handheld scanning device in a previously mapped environment is provided. The system includes a two-dimensional (2D) scanner and one or more processors operably coupled to the 2D scanner. The one or more processors are responsive to non-transitory executable instructions for performing operations that include determining a current location of the 2D scanner in the environment relative to a location in a previously generated 2D image of the environment that was generated based on an image of a non-digital floorplan. The operations also include generating a new 2D image of at least a subset of the environment. The at least a subset of the environment includes the current location of the 2D scanner and at least one other location in the environment. The operations further include overlapping portions of the previously generated 2D image and the new 2D image.