Method, system, and apparatus for automated sporting trophy measurement and scoring

A mobile device comprising:

• a sensor;
• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to:
• acquire, by the sensor, sensor data representing a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud of a trophy animal including an animal feature;
• detect, by the one or more processors, points of the 3D point cloud corresponding the animal feature;
• orient the animal feature of interest to a designated measurement orientation;
• build a model of the animal feature comprising a skeleton graph with nodes and edges;
• compute one or more measurements of the animal feature from the model and the point cloud;
• compute a score from the one or more measurements on the mobile device without network connectivity;
• and
• present a visualization of the score, the one or more measurements, or a combination thereof on a user interface of a display device.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a mobile device comprising a depth sensor, cause the mobile device to perform operations comprising:

• acquiring, by the depth sensor of the mobile device, sensor data representing a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud of a trophy animal including an animal feature;
• detecting, by one or more processors of the mobile device, points of the 3D point cloud corresponding the animal feature;
• orienting the animal feature of interest to a designated measurement orientation;
• building a model of the animal feature comprising a skeleton graph with nodes and edges;
• computing one or more measurements of the animal feature from the model and the point cloud;
• computing a score from the one or more measurements on the mobile device without network connectivity;
• and
• presenting a visualization of the score, the one or more measurements, or a combination thereof on a user interface of a display device.