Patent ID: 11943539
Assignee: MATTERPORT, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the depth information capture device comprises a Light Detection and Ranging (lidar) device and a mirror, the drive train to rotate the mirror about a second axis while the lidar device emits a plurality of laser pulses to the mirror, the mirror, in turn, emits the plurality of laser pulses in one or more revolutions about a substantially horizontal axis and receives a corresponding plurality of reflected laser pulses, and the lidar device, in turn, receives the plurality of reflected laser pulses and generates the depth information therefrom, wherein the first, second and third blended images of the first, second and third FOVs each comprise a plurality of pixels, wherein each of the plurality of pixels is associated with numerical coordinates that identify a location of the pixel in the scene, and wherein each of the reflected laser pulses is likewise associated with corresponding numerical coordinates that identify a location of the depth information generated therefrom, and wherein combining, by the 3D image generation module, the depth information for the 360-degree scene with the panoramic image of the 360-degree scene to create the 3D panoramic image of the 360-degree scene comprises combining the depth information at a location in the 360-degree scene with the panoramic image at the same location in the 360-degree scene to create the 3D panoramic image of the 360-degree scene.