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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2011
Selecting and verifying textures in image-based three-dimensional modeling, and applications thereof
Zhe Fan, Boulder, CO (US);
Brian Gammon Brown, Longmont, CO (US);
Matthew Robert Simpson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tilman Reinhardt, Woodside, CA (US);
Zhe Fan, Boulder, CO (US);
Brian Gammon Brown, Longmont, CO (US);
Matthew Robert Simpson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tilman Reinhardt, Woodside, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to selecting and verifying textures in image-based three-dimensional modeling. In a first embodiment, a computer-implemented method for texturing a three-dimensional model. In the method, a polygon orientation of a polygon defining a face of a three-dimensional model is determined. A first camera orientation corresponding to a camera that took a first photographic image in a set of photographic images is also determined. The first photographic image is unconstrained to the three-dimensional model. The polygon orientation is compared with the first camera orientation to determine whether the first photographic image is directed toward the face of the three-dimensional model. If the first photographic image is directed toward the face of the three-dimensional model, a notification is provided for display to a user indicating that the first photographic image could be texture mapped to the three-dimensional model if the first photographic image is constrained to the three-dimensional model.