IMAGING DEVICE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THREE DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATIONS AND METHODS OF USE

摘要

Described herein is a system and method to create a 3D representation of an observed scene by combining multiple views from a moving image capture device. The output is a point cloud or a mesh model. Models can be captured at arbitrary scales varying from small objects to entire buildings. The visual fidelity of produced models is comparable to that of a photograph when rendered using conventional graphics rendering. Despite offering fine-scale accuracies, the mapping results are globally consistent, even at large scales.