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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2014
Applicant:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Inventors:
Dmitriy V. Korchev, Irvine, CA (US);
Zhiqi Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Yuri Owechko, Newbury Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06T 15/08 (2011.01); G06T 15/20 (2011.01); G06T 17/05 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 15/08 (2013.01); G06T 15/205 (2013.01); G06T 17/05 (2013.01); G06T 2215/12 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for detecting an opening in a structure represented by a three-dimensional point cloud may include the steps of: (1) creating a three-dimensional point cloud map of a scene, the three-dimensional point cloud map including a plurality of points representing a ground plane and the structure upon the ground plane, (2) identifying an absence of points within the plurality of points representing the structure, and (3) determining whether the absence of points represents the opening in the structure.