CAPTURING AND ALIGNING THREE-DIMENSIONAL SCENES

• US 20140125658A1
• Filed: 11/01/2013
• Published: 05/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Matterport, Inc
• Original Assignee: Matterport, Inc
• Inventors: Bell, Matthew, Gausebeck, David, Beebe, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 10,529,143 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/419
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/20 Editing of 3D images, e.g. changing shapes or colours, aligning objects or positioning parts
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/653 by matching three-dimensional models, e.g. conformal mapping of Riemann surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/10 Processing, recording or transmission of stereoscopic or multi-view image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/106 Processing image signals for multi-view video sequence encoding H04N19/597
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/156 Mixing image signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/204 using stereoscopic image cameras stereoscopic photography G03B35/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/246 Calibration of cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2213/001 Constructional or mechanical details

Abstract

Systems and methods for building a three-dimensional composite scene are disclosed. Certain embodiments of the systems and methods may include the use of a three-dimensional capture device that captures a plurality of three-dimensional images of an environment. Some embodiments may further include elements concerning aligning and/or mapping the captured images. Various embodiments may further include elements concerning reconstructing the environment from which the images were captured. The methods disclosed herein may be performed by a program embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium when executed the program is executed a processor.

Claims

1. A system for building a three-dimensional composite scene, the system comprising:

a three-dimensional capture device for capturing a plurality of three-dimensional images of an environment;

a processor for executing instructions stored in memory, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor aligns the plurality of three-dimensional images in a common space to obtain mapping data regarding the environment; and

a rendering device for displaying a three-dimensional construction of the environment based on the mapping data.