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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 28, 2011
Applicants:

Carlos Carbonera, St. Paul, MN (US);

Vasily Vylkov, Blaine, MN (US);

Daniel R. Starks, Lake Elmo, MN (US);

Jiang Qian, Edina, MN (US);

Eric J. Voth, Maplewood, MN (US);

Inventors:

Carlos Carbonera, St. Paul, MN (US);

Vasily Vylkov, Blaine, MN (US);

Daniel R. Starks, Lake Elmo, MN (US);

Jiang Qian, Edina, MN (US);

Eric J. Voth, Maplewood, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/00 (2013.01); G06T 2210/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of constructing a bounding box comprises: acquiring a set of sensed data points; adding, for each sensed data point, at least one calculated data point; and defining a bounding box containing the sensed and calculated data points. A method of identifying voxels in a voxel grid corresponding to a plurality of data points comprises: calculating, for each data point, a distance between it and each voxel; creating a subset of voxels comprising voxels having a distance from one data point that is less than a predetermined distance; creating another subset comprising those voxels that neighbor a voxel in the first subset; computing, for each voxel in the second subset, a distance between it and each voxel in the first subset; and identifying each voxel in the first subset that is a distance away from each voxel in the second subset that exceeds a predetermined distance.


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