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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 07, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Koichi Shiono, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/700 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/700 ;
Abstract
A plurality of partial shape data that are obtained from widely varying viewpoints (potential directions) are registered. Each of the partial shape data is represented by shape vectors, and corresponding shape vectors representing the plurality of partial shape data are merged through vector arithmetic to thereby obtain shape vectors representing shape data that is obtained by merging the plurality of partial shape data.