Patent Document ID: 20050180623
Application ID: 11034107
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for developing a digital representation of a 3D object, comprising the step of: forming from a set of scan data the digital representation; wherein said scan data, comprises: multiple image information describing at least one of said 3D object and a calibration ring from a plurality of angles; a plurality of reference coordinates, said reference coordinates having been developed from images of said calibration ring, and at least one of two or more relative viewing angles of at least one view-detector with respect to at least one of said 3D object and said calibration ring and at least two 3D positions of said at least one view-detector with respect to at least one of said 3D object and said calibration ring; wherein at least one of said viewing angles and said 3D positions have been determined using calibration ring imagery; wherein said digital representation, comprises: a first portion of data comprising a 3D surface representation; and a second portion of data for describing the color and the view dependent surface image of a plurality of points of at least a surface portion; wherein the digital representation comprises data having been aligned at least in part by using said reference coordinates; and wherein said first data portion and said second data portion are combinable to describe the 3D shape and the view dependent surface image of said plurality of points of at least one of said surface portion; and wherein the step of forming comprises the steps of: developing from said multiple image information to create an image data; and mapping said image data to the 3D surface representation.