Patent Document ID: 9159162
Application ID: 13338381
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method of constructing a bounding box corresponding to a plurality of location data points, said method comprising: acquiring a set of location data points comprising a plurality of sensed location data points; adding, for each sensed location data point in said set of location data points, at least one calculated location data point to said set of location data points, wherein each calculated data point added for a respective sensed location data point is separated from the respective sensed location data point along at least one axis, further wherein a distance along each axis between each calculated data point and the respective sensor location data point is either zero or a predetermined equal distance; defining a three-dimensional bounding box containing each of said sensed location data points and said calculated location data points in said set of location data points; and generating a surface model based at least in part on said three-dimensional bounding box.