Patent Document ID: 8711143
Application ID: 12954014
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: receiving images of an object captured from a plurality of different viewpoints of the object; receiving input that is considered to have been drawn onto features of the object and not onto portions of the images that are not part of the object, the input effective to derive a plurality of feature curves for the object, including one or more multi-view feature curves and two or more single-view feature curves, the one or more multi-view feature curves corresponding to said feature curves that are indicative of a shape of the object derived from the input that is considered to have been drawn onto the features of the object and not onto the portions of the images that are not part of the object in more than one of the images and the two or more single-view feature curves each corresponding to one said feature curve that is derived from the input that is considered to have been drawn onto the features of the object in a respective one of the images; generating one or more three-dimensional (3D) shape constraints for the object from the one or more multi-view feature curves and independent of the two or more single-view feature curves; generating an approximation of a 3D surface for the object from the two or more single-view feature curves; and generating a 3D model of the object from the one or more 3D shape constraints and the 3D surface approximation.