Patent ID: 8681150

Claim:
A modeling method comprising: identifying a detected object in an input image according to a corresponding view point of the input image by comparing characteristic information of the detected object with characteristic information of each of plural pre-defined objects, where the comparing performs a comparing of generated color pixel value based image information of a group of pixels corresponding to a portion of the detected object with respective color pixel value based image information of a group of pixels of respective portions of each of the plural pre-defined objects in combination with a comparing of generated non-color pixel value based information of the group of pixels corresponding to the portion of the detected object with respective non-color pixel value based information of the group of pixels of the respective portions of each of the plural pre-defined objects for the identifying of the detected object; combining, as a combined 3D model, at least two respective 3D models, including a 3D model of the identified object from the view point of the input image, respectively from at least two different view points representing separate and/or overlapping portions of the identified object; using at least one processing device placing the input image including the identified object over the combined 3D model; and outputting the combined 3D model with the over-placed image.