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US 2016/0097858 A1Published application
Backfilling clouds of 3d coordinates
AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsTerrell Nathan Mundhenk, Yuri Owechko, Kyungnam Kim
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AssigneeThe Boeing Company
InventorsTerrell Nathan Mundhenk, Yuri Owechko, Kyungnam Kim
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Systems and methods are provided for backfilling a 3D cloud of coordinates. One embodiment is an apparatus that includes a camera able to capture an image, and a ranging system able to measure distances objects. The apparatus also includes a controller able to analyze the measured distances to generate a cloud of three dimensional coordinates, and to project coordinates of the cloud onto the image to match the coordinates with pixels of the image. The controller is also able to generate additional coordinates to increase the resolution of the cloud by iteratively defining a scanning window, detecting a group of coordinates that have been projected onto the scanning window, scoring each coordinate in the group based on its similarity to other coordinates in the group, dividing the scanning window into quadrants, selecting a coordinate from each quadrant, and generating an additional coordinate based on the selected coordinates.
An apparatus comprising:
A method, comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying programmed instructions which, when executed by a processor, are operable for performing a method comprising:
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