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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 06, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sarah F. F. Gibson, Arlington, MA (US);
Michael E. Leventon, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/700 ;
Abstract
A method generates a surface model for a three-dimensional object. The object is scanned from a plurality of directions to produce a volume data for each scanning direction. Each volume data is segmented to extract data associated with the object. The volume data are then registered to a common coordinate frame. After registration, a surface net is initialized for each volume data. The multiple surface nets are relaxed and merge according to the common coordinate frame to generate a renderable surface model.