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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:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2012
Applicant:
Alan Sullivan, Middleton, MA (US);
Inventor:
Alan Sullivan, Middleton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/60 (2006.01); G06F 17/10 (2006.01); G05B 19/4069 (2006.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/4069 (2013.01); G06T 17/005 (2013.01); G06T 2200/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computer program product for processing a model of an object according to a set of instructions includes a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing a model of an object represented by a hybrid adaptively sampled distance field (ADF), wherein the model includes a hierarchy of cells, wherein at least one cell includes a set of distance functions forming at least part of a boundary of the object and a set of distance samples of at least some of the distance functions, such that a processor executing the set of instructions processes the model of the object.