Patent ID: 11930302
Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
a three-dimensional image sensor;
a two-dimensional image sensor; and
a computer communicatively coupled to the three-dimensional image sensor and the two-dimensional image sensor, the computer including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
receive a two-dimensional image of an object from the two-dimensional image sensor;
output, from a machine learning program trained to identify one or more reference points in an input two-dimensional image, a reference point of the object in the two-dimensional image;
when a similarity measure based on a distance between the reference point and a three-dimensional reference point is below a threshold, collect three-dimensional image data of the object from the three-dimensional image sensor;
output a new three-dimensional reference point based on the collected three-dimensional image data; and
deactivate the three-dimensional image sensor upon outputting the new three-dimensional reference point.