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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2022
Direct Current Capital Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);
Kah Seng Tay, Mountain View, CA (US);
Qing Sun, Mountain View, CA (US);
James Patrick Marion, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
One variation of a method includes: accessing a 2D color image recorded by a 2D color camera and a 3D point cloud recorded by a 3D depth sensor at approximately a first time, the 2D color camera and the 3D depth sensor defining intersecting fields of view and facing outwardly from an autonomous vehicle; detecting a cluster of points in the 3D point cloud representing a continuous surface approximating a plane; isolating a cluster of color pixels in the 2D color image depicting the continuous surface; projecting the cluster of color pixels onto the plane to define a set of synthetic 3D color points in the 3D point cloud, the cluster of points and the set of synthetic 3D color points representing the continuous surface; and rendering points in the 3D point cloud and the set of synthetic 3D color points on a display.