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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2020
Ansys, Inc., Canonsburg, PA (US);
Rishikesh Ranade, Bridgeville, PA (US);
Jay Pathak, Pleasanton, CA (US);
ANSYS, INC., Canonsburg, PA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for determining spatial characteristics of three-dimensional objects is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a point cloud representation of a three-dimensional surface structure of a plurality of objects. The device may further generate a set of bins to represent the three-dimensional surface structure based on the point cloud representation, each bin corresponding to a spatial occupancy related to the point cloud representation, each bin including a respective type indicating a spatial relationship of the surface structures and a corresponding spatial occupancy of the bin. In addition, the device may encode the set of bins using a convolutional neural network. The device may further determine a classification for the spatial characteristic of the surface structures based on the convolutional neural network with the encoded set of bins.