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Method and system for 3D capture based on structure from motion with simplified pose detection

  • US 10,068,344 B2
  • Filed: 03/05/2015
  • Issued: 09/04/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An integrated 3D modeling device comprising:

  • a camera configured to capture a sequence of images from a sequence of poses relative to a known reference template pattern placed into a scene, or relative to known reference object(s) in the scene to be modeled;

    a template pattern recognition engine configured to recognize the known reference template pattern placed in the scene to be modeled and determine a position of known points of the known reference template pattern or known reference object in an image from the sequences of images captured by the camera;

    a pose engine configured to determine an orientation and a position of the camera (camera pose) relative to the known reference template pattern or known reference object recognized by the template pattern recognition engine;

    a SFM (Structure from Motion) engine configured to determine a relative displacement of each pixel (pixel displacement) from one image to another image from the sequence of images using optical flow, and determine a range to points representing features in the scene from a viewpoint of the camera that captured the images using the pixel displacement produced by the SFM engine and camera pose calculated by the pose engine; and

    a 3D modeling engine configured to combine product from the template pattern recognition and pose engines with product from the SFM engine to provide a dimensionally correct 3D map output of the scene used to generate a 3D model.

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