Point cloud operations
US10783698B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 31, 2018 |
| Grant date | Sep 22, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 31, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2210/56
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Embodiments described herein provide an apparatus comprising a processor to separate a three-dimensional (3D) scene in a point cloud data set comprising a plurality of voxels into a 3D grid of cells, each cell in the 3D grid of cells comprising a plurality of faces, execute a 3D clustering algorithm to create a plurality of 3D clusters, define a transparency level for each face of each cell in the plurality of cells, detect a surface layer of cells for the plurality of clusters in the 3D scene, and delete, from the plurality of clusters, cells which are not in the surface layer of cells. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
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