US 2015/0306824 A1Published application

System, apparatus and method, for producing a three dimensional printed figurine

AssigneeRememborines Inc.

InventorsFernando Flores Mangas, Aidan David Tracey, Pete Forde

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Abstract

A system, apparatus and method for producing a 3D figurine is provided. The system comprises: a mounting rig having assembled and unassembled states, mounting rig defining a space therein when assembled, and being portable when unassembled; cameras attached to mounting rig when assembled, the cameras arranged for capturing at least two viewing angles of a substantial portion of surface points of the subject; and, a computing device comprising a processor and a communication interface, the computing device in communication with each of the cameras using the, the processor configured to: coordinate the cameras to capture respective image data at substantially a same time; receive images comprising the respective image data from the cameras; and, transmit, using the interface, the images to a server for processing into a 3D printer file.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a mounting rig having an assembled state and an unassembled state, the mounting rig defining a space therein in the assembled state, the mounting rig being portable in the unassembled state;
a plurality of cameras attached to the mounting rig in the assembled state, the plurality of cameras arranged for capturing at least two viewing angles of a substantial portion of surface points of a subject located within the space when the mounting rig is in the assembled state, other than those portions of the subject that support the subject;
and,
a computing device comprising a processor and a communication interface, the computing device in communication with each of the plurality of cameras using the communication interface, the processor configured to:
coordinate the plurality of cameras to capture respective image data at substantially a same time;
receive a plurality of images comprising the respective image data from the plurality of cameras;
and,
transmit, using the communication interface, the plurality of images to a server for processing into a three dimensional (3D) printer file.

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A method comprising:

a server comprising a processor and a communication interface, receiving, using the communication interface, a plurality of images of a subject, each of the plurality of images captured using a different camera of a plurality of cameras;
estimating, using the processor, one or more camera parameters of each of the plurality of cameras by processing the plurality of images;
estimating, using the processor, three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of 3D points representing a surface of the subject by, for each of the plurality of images:
finding a subset of overlapping images, of the plurality of images, which overlap a field of view of a given image;
determining a Fundamental Matrix that relates geometry of projections of the given image to each of the overlapping images using the one or more camera parameters;
for each pixel in the given image, determining whether a match can be found between a given pixel and a plurality of candidate locations along a corresponding Epipolar line in an overlapping image and, when a match is found:
estimating respective 3D coordinates of a point associated with both a position of the given pixel and a respective position of a matched pixel;
and
adding the respective 3D coordinates to a set of the 3D points;
converting, using the processor, the set of the 3D points to a 3D printer file;
and,
transmitting, using the communication interface, the 3D printer file to a 3D printer for 3D printing of a figurine representing the subject.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.