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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2011
Ravinder P. Krishnaswamy, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey M. Kowalski, Berkeley, CA (US);
Carl Christer Janson, San Rafael, CA (US);
Ravinder P. Krishnaswamy, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jeffrey M. Kowalski, Berkeley, CA (US);
Carl Christer Janson, San Rafael, CA (US);
Autodesk, Inc., San Rafael, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, and computer readable medium provide the ability to create a point cloud indexed file. A grid (of cells that are divided into subcells) is mapped over points in a point cloud dataset. An occupancy value, that indicates whether a subcell contains a point, is computed for each subcell. A surface area contribution factor is computed for each cell and identifies a count of subcells that are occupied divided by a total number of subcells. The surface area contribution factor for each cell and points for each cell are written to the point cloud indexed file.