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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2023
GM Cruise Holdings Llc, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hariprasad Govardhanam, Fremont, CA (US);
GM Cruise Holdings LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed technology provides solutions for improving virtual object representation in a simulated (or virtual) environment and in particular, provides solutions for rendering surfel representations of real-world objects into a simulated environment using point cloud data. In some aspects, the disclosed technology includes a process for receiving a plurality of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) points corresponding with a real-world object, determining, for each of the plurality of LiDAR points, an image texture based on the real-world object, and generating a surfel object representing the real-world object. In some aspects, the process further includes steps for inserting the surfel object into a simulated three-dimensional (3D) environment. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.