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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:
Aug. 03, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas P. O'Rourke, Portland, OR (US);
Jason R. Plumb, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 4/36 ; G06T 1/700 ; G06T 1/540 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 4/36 ; G06T 1/700 ; G06T 1/540 ;
Abstract
A multi-dimensional bounding sphere is determined for a collection of points by determining a multi-dimensional bounding box that encompasses all of the points, determining the center of the bounding sphere from the center of the bounding box, and determining the radius of the bounding sphere as the distance from the center of the bounding sphere to a location not closer to the center of the bounding sphere than any of the points in the collection of points.