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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
May. 27, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Daniel L. Kovacs, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mark E. Drummond, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Payal Jotwani, Santa Clara, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In some implementations, a method includes obtaining environmental data corresponding to an environment. The method includes determining that the environmental data corresponding to the environment includes environmental data that corresponds to a first portion of an object that represents a sub-portion of the object and not an entirety of the object. The method includes generating a plurality of candidate point clouds for a second portion of the object based on the environmental data corresponding to the first portion of the object. The plurality of candidate point clouds are associated with corresponding confidence scores. The method includes synthesizing a model of the environment that includes a point cloud representing the first portion of the object, at least a subset of the plurality of candidate point clouds for the second portion of the object and the corresponding confidence scores associated with the subset of the plurality of candidate point clouds.