Patent Document ID: 9483703
Application ID: 14120370
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A product comprising a non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable storage medium containing a program of instructions that causes a computer system running the program of instructions to cause at least the following to occur: receive a stream of video images of a scene, each image having been captured by an image capture device while located at a particular position and having a particular orientation, at least two of the images having been captured by the image capture device while at different locations; after receiving each image and before processing the next image, generate information indicative of the position and orientation of the image capture device at the time of capturing the image and update a three dimensional (3D) model by performing at least the following: identifying distinguishable image feature points in the image; for each identified image feature point, attempting to identify one or more distinguishable model feature points in a three dimensional (3D) model of at least a portion of the scene that appears likely to correspond to the identified image feature point, where the correspondence is determined by a matching algorithm that performs at least the following: back-projects the feature point in the three dimensional (3D) model onto the previously-received image; finds an estimated pixel location on the current image using dense optical flow; and searches near the estimate pixel location to find the matched image feature point; finding each of the following that, in combination, produce a consistent projection transformation of the 3D model onto the image: a subset of identified image feature points for which one or more corresponding model feature points were identified; and for each image feature point that has multiple likely corresponding model feature points, one of the corresponding model feature points; and updating the three dimensional (3D) model by using the projection transformation of the current image to estimate geometry information.