Software Development Kit for LIDAR Data
AssigneePar Technology Corporation
InventorsMark J. Kozak, Jimmy X. Wu
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and system for compressing and retrieving Light Detection and Ranging output data, and, more specifically, to a method and system for compressing Light Detection and Ranging output data by Run Length Encoding Light Detection and Ranging output data and rapidly accessing this compressed data which is filtered by attributes without the need to read or decompress the entire collection of data.
Claims18
A computer implemented method for reducing total storage space used to store LiDAR output data, the method comprising:
- receiving LiDAR output data containing point data information comprising a plurality of data points;
- separating and arranging the point data information, by a processor, into a plurality of fields based on predetermined parameters, wherein each field comprises an array of values;
- compressing the point data information in each field array, by said processor, by one or more data compression techniques;
- implementing an interface allowing access to a first subset of field arrays of a set of field arrays based on a user request, wherein said first subset of requested field arrays includes a lower number of field arrays than said set of field arrays, and
- selectively decompressing, by said processor, said first subset of requested field arrays based on said user request.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing program code comprising:
- program code for receiving LiDAR output data containing point data information comprising a plurality of data points;
- program code for separating and arranging the point data information into a plurality of fields based on predetermined parameters, wherein each field comprises an array of values;
- program code for compressing the point data information in each field array by one or more data compression techniques;
- program code for implementing an interface allowing access to a first subset of field arrays of a set of field arrays based on a user request, wherein said first subset of requested field arrays includes a lower number of field arrays than said set of field arrays, and
- program code for selectively decompressing said first subset of requested field arrays based on said user request.
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