Patent Document ID: 9679362
Application ID: 13977792
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of producing a pseudo-3D image of one or more map objects, comprising: acquiring, by a processor, an image representing at least part of map object; acquiring, by the processor, laser scan data for the at least part of the map object, the laser scan data representing distances from a laser scanner to one or more points on at least one surface of the map object; determining, by the processor, a normal map, the normal map comprising or being representative of one or more normal vectors of at least one point of the at least one surface of the at least one map object; normalizing, by the processor, said one or more normal vectors; generating, by the processor, from the normal map, a texture map associated with the at least one map object from the laser scan data, the texture map being representative of light reflected from and/or shadows on the at least one surface of the map object; processing, by the processor, the texture map and the image by combining corresponding portions of the texture map and image in order to generate a pseudo 3D image representing the at least part of the map object.