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Patent No.:

US 11954907 B1

Date of Patent:

Apr. 09, 2024

Filed:

Jun. 24, 2021

Electrical power grid modeling

Applicant:

X Development Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ananya Gupta, San Francisco, CA (US);

Phillip Ellsworth Stahlfeld, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

X Development LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:

Fish & Richardson P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Zhitong Chen

Int. Cl.

CPC ...

G06V 20/10 (2022.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06F 16/587 (2019.01); G06F 18/2413 (2023.01); G06F 30/18 (2020.01); G06T 5/30 (2006.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06T 7/60 (2017.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 11/20 (2006.01); G06T 17/05 (2011.01); H02J 3/00 (2006.01);

U.S. Cl.

CPC ...

G06V 20/182 (2022.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06F 16/587 (2019.01); G06F 18/24133 (2023.01); G06F 30/18 (2020.01); G06T 5/30 (2013.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06T 7/60 (2013.01); G06T 7/73 (2017.01); G06T 7/75 (2017.01); G06T 11/206 (2013.01); G06T 17/05 (2013.01); G06V 20/176 (2022.01); H02J 3/00 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10032 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30184 (2013.01); G06V 20/194 (2022.01); H02J 2203/20 (2020.01);

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for electric grid modeling using surfel data are enclosed. An electric grid wire identification method includes: obtaining a set of surface elements (surfels), wherein each surfel of the set of surfels represents a portion of a surface of an object in a geographic region; selecting, based on one or more surfel attributes, one or more surfels of the set of surfels that each represent a portion of a surface of an electric grid wire; generating a representation of the electric grid wire from the selected one or more surfels; and adding the representation of the electric grid wire to a virtual model of the electric grid. Obtaining the set of surfels can include obtaining ranging data of the geographic region; and generating the set of surfels from the ranging data.

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