Patent ID: 7487063
Filing Date: 2009-02-03
Classification: G01B,G05B,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for reconstructing a surface from at least one arbitrary three-dimensional entity obtained from a target surface, comprising: obtaining a set of at least one three-dimensional entity and a position for said at least one entity in a common three-dimensional coordinate system, each entity being a set of three-dimensional points, each said point containing at least the three-dimensional coordinates of said point on said target surface, wherein said entity is one of an unorganized cloud, a three-dimensional curve and a range image; constructing a volumetric implicit representation of said target surface in the form of a vector field using said set, each vector in said vector field containing at least the distance to said target surface and the direction toward said target surface; reconstructing said target surface from the information contained in said vector field.