Patent ID: 9338440
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G06F,G06T,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of acquiring a set of images useable to 3D model a physical object, the method comprising: imaging the physical object with a camera; displaying, with the camera, a current view of the physical object as imaged by the camera from a current perspective; displaying, with the camera, a visual cue overlaying the current view and indicating perspectives wrapping around the physical object from which the physical object is to be imaged to acquire the set of images, the visual cue comprising two or more cells forming a grid spherically arranged around the physical object, each cell indicating a perspective from which the physical object is to be imaged to acquire the set of images, an orientation of the visual cue being changeable to track an orientation of the camera as the physical object is imaged from different perspectives around the physical object, the visual cue visually indicating non-imaged perspectives from which the physical object has not already been imaged differently from perspectives from which the physical object has already been imaged in order to indicate movements of the camera to capture the non-imaged perspectives.