Patent ID: 8705893
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A system for automatically generating a two-dimensional (2D) floor plan of a building being studied, said system comprising: a camera that is employed to obtain a series of images over time as the camera is moved about a floor of the building being studied, each obtained image being represented by image data including a first set of data representing one or more color values of points observed by the camera and a second set of three-dimensional (3D) data representative of distances from the camera to the points observed by the camera; and a processor provisioned to generate the 2D floor plan from the image data, said 2D floor plan being defined by one or more polylines that represent one or more structures of the building and one or more polygons that represent an area of the floor which has been observed by the camera; wherein to generate the 2D floor plan, said processor: