Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-resolution voxel meshing
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Application No.: US17147559Application Date: 2021-01-13
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Publication No.: US11328481B2Publication Date: 2022-05-10
- Inventor: Maxime Meilland , Andrew Predoehl , Kyle L. Simek , Ming Chuang , Pedro A. Pinies Rodriguez
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Thompson Hine LLP
- Main IPC: G06T17/20
- IPC: G06T17/20 ; G06T3/40

Abstract:
Various implementations disclosed herein generate a mesh representing the surfaces in a physical environment. The mesh is generated using multi-resolution voxels based on detected depth information, e.g., from a depth camera. The techniques may use multiple hash tables to store the multi-resolution voxel data. For example, the hash tables may store each voxel's 3D position and a truncated signed distance field (TSDF) value corresponding to each voxels' distance to a nearest surface. Each of the multiple hash tables may include data corresponding to a different level of resolution and those resolutions may depend upon distance/noise or other factors. For example, voxels close to a depth camera may have a finer resolution and smaller size compared to voxels that are further from the depth camera. Techniques disclosed herein may involve using a meshing algorithm that combines multi-resolution voxel information stored in multiple hash tables to generate a single mesh.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210225074A1 MULTI-RESOLUTION VOXEL MESHING Public/Granted day:2021-07-22
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