218 results about "Planar projection" patented technology

The present invention provides a method whereby the spatial relationship and orientations of one or more three-dimensional objects being illuminated by an optical projector, and the optical projector itself, can be very accurately defined both quickly and easily. The present invention also provides a novel computerized optical projection system whereby three dimensional data when viewed by the human eye projected onto three dimensional objects is not deformed as a result of the non-planar projection surface. The present invention could have many applications in many industries that include entertainment, apparel, marketing, and many others. In one embodiment, the invention provides computerized optical assembly or manufacturing guidance systems, and related methods, that provide step-by-step assembly or manufacturing instructions for instructing technicians how to assemble or manufacture three-dimensional objects or systems, or parts thereof, which may be extremely complex, such as an aircraft, or a part thereof (a vertical stabilizer, or the like), in a very efficient, rapid and accurate manner. The assembly instructions are in the form of calibrated three-dimensional text, images and / or symbols, and are projected by one or a plurality of optical projectors that are in operable communication with one or a plurality of computers onto the three-dimensional objects or systems, or component parts or skins thereof.

The present invention provides a method whereby the spatial relationship and orientations of one or more three-dimensional objects being illuminated by an optical projector, and the optical projector itself, can be very accurately defined both quickly and easily. The present invention also provides a novel computerized optical projection system whereby three dimensional data when viewed by the human eye projected onto three dimensional objects is not deformed as a result of the non-planar projection surface. The present invention could have many applications in many industries that include entertainment, apparel, marketing, and many others. In one embodiment, the invention provides computerized optical assembly or manufacturing guidance systems, and related methods, that provide step-by-step assembly or manufacturing instructions for instructing technicians how to assemble or manufacture three-dimensional objects or systems, or parts thereof, which may be extremely complex, such as an aircraft, or a part thereof (a vertical stabilizer, or the like), in a very efficient, rapid and accurate manner. The assembly instructions are in the form of calibrated three-dimensional text, images and / or symbols, and are projected by one or a plurality of optical projectors that are in operable communication with one or a plurality of computers onto the three-dimensional objects or systems, or component parts or skins thereof.

The invention provides a three-dimensional terrain model real-time smooth drawing method with combination of a GPU technology, and belongs to the technical field of image processing. The objective of the invention is to provide the three-dimensional terrain model real-time smooth drawing method with combination of the GPU technology so that cache reuse in multiple times of drawing can be realized based on the current popular programmable GPU technology with a global digital elevation model acting as a data source, and load of computation space is effectively reduced. The method comprises the steps of construction of a multi-resolution pyramid model, elimination of image noise points, filtering of images, partitioning of planar projection of the earth according to equal latitude and longitude, and construction of different hierarchical levels of pyramid layers according to a mode from the top to the bottom. Acceleration and enhancement of terrain rendering are realized based on the programmable GPU technology, i.e. all phases of a graphical drawing pipeline are controlled by using shader languages, two and textures are respectively generated by vertex information and index information of elevation data to be stored in video memory for scheduling of whole terrain drawing; and vertex interpolation and migration are performed in the geometric phase by utilizing a curved surface subdivision and fractal technology so that procedural details are generated and the phenomenon of edges and corners of the terrain mesh when resolution is insufficient can be compensated.

A reference in an unknown environment is generated on the fly for positioning and tracking. The reference is produced in a top down process by capturing an image of a planar object with a predefined geometric shape, detecting edge pixels of the planar object, then detecting a plurality of line segments from the edge pixels. The plurality of line segments may then be used to detect the planar object in the image based on the predefined geometric shape. An initial pose of the camera with respect to the planar object is determined and tracked using the edges of the planar object.

The present invention is a system that allows a number of 3D volumetric display or output configurations, such as dome, cubical and cylindrical volumetric displays, to interact with a number of different input configurations, such as a three-dimensional position sensing system having a volume sensing field, a planar position sensing system having a digitizing tablet, and a non-planar position sensing system having a sensing grid formed on a dome. The user interacts via the input configurations, such as by moving a digitizing stylus on the sensing grid formed on the dome enclosure surface. This interaction affects the content of the volumetric display by mapping positions and corresponding vectors of the stylus to a moving cursor within the 3D display space of the volumetric display that is offset from a tip of the stylus along the vector.

A new and useful method and projection system for projecting an image from an object plane to an image plane is provided. The method and system is designed to operate at a 1× magnification, a relatively high NA, with a relatively large instantaneous scanning field, and to achieve sub-micron resolution at high optical throughput. An object plane is scanned across an instantaneous rectangular field at least 40 mm in the direction of scan and at least 132 mm in a direction that is perpendicular to the scan, and the scanned image is projected onto the image plane through a catadioptric projection system configured for a 1× magnification and a numerical aperture of at least 0.23. The catadioptric projection system includes (i) a first field lens group configured to transmit an image ray bundle from the object plane, (ii) a first plane reflector configured to reflect and redirect the image ray bundle projected from the first field lens group, (iii) a second lens group in the optical path of the reflected, redirected image ray bundle, and a concave reflector following the second lens group, the concave reflector configured to reflect and return the reflected image ray bundle through the second lens group, (iv) a second plane reflector configured to reflect and redirect the returned image ray bundle, and (v) a third field lens group configured to receive and project the reflected, returned image ray bundle onto the image plane.

That surface of an electrode plate 20 which is opposite to a susceptor 10 has a projection shape. The electrode plate 20 is fitted in an opening 26a of shield ring 26 at a projection 20a. At this time, die thickness of the projection 20a is approximately the same as the thickness of the shield ring 26. Accordingly, the electrode plate 20 and the shield ring 26 form substantially the same plane. The major surface of the projection 20a has a diameter 1.2 to 1.5 times the diameter of a wafer W. The electrode plate 20 is formed of, for example, SiC.

The integrated electronic device is for detecting a local parameter related to a force observed in a given direction, within a solid structure. The device includes at least one sensor configured to detect the above-mentioned local parameter at least in the given direction through piezo-resistive effect. At least one damping element, integrated in the device, is arranged within a frame-shaped region that is disposed around the at least one sensor and belongs to a substantially planar region comprising a plane passing through the sensor and perpendicular to the given direction. Such at least one damping element is configured to damp forces acting in the planar region and substantially perpendicular to the given direction.

The present invention discloses a building corner space position automatic extraction method in a vehicle laser scanning point cloud. The method comprises: obtaining the space layering point cloud in a vehicle direction in a local range according to the height of a local building, performing planar projection of the space layering point cloud, and projecting the dispersed laser scanning point cloud to a plane according to the range of the space layering point cloud and the plane coordinates of the space layering point cloud; defining the brightness value of a pixel according to the number of the laser scanning point cloud in a unit pixel on the plane, converting the brightness value of the pixel to a planar projection image; performing linear detection of an area having high brightness in the plane projection image, extracting the line sections having linear features, and merging the line sections; and analyzing the relative position relation and the intersecting angle of the extracted line sections, screening out the line sections which accord with the building corner features through intersecting, solving the coordinates of the line section intersecting corner points in the planar projection image, and calculating the space position information of a corner object according to the coordinates of the line section intersecting corner points in the planar projection image.

A reference in an unknown environment is generated on the fly for positioning and tracking. The reference is produced in a top down process by capturing an image of a planar object with a predefined geometric shape, detecting edge pixels of the planar object, then detecting a plurality of line segments from the edge pixels. The plurality of line segments may then be used to detect the planar object in the image based on the predefined geometric shape. An initial pose of the camera with respect to the planar object is determined and tracked using the edges of the planar object.

The embodiment of the invention discloses an oblique photography building model monomerization method and device based on point density projection, a storage medium and electronic equipment. The method comprises the steps: carrying out the planar projection of a building point cloud model obtained through oblique photography, obtaining a density projection drawing, carrying out the gray thresholdfiltering and morphological expansion of the density projection drawing, and obtaining a gray threshold value of the density projection drawing; obtaining a building facade orthographic projection area, carrying out connected component analysis on the building facade orthographic projection area by utilizing a two pass algorithm, segmenting connected components containing each single building, calculating a minimum bounding box for each connected component, and carrying out contour modeling and block merging to obtain a single building image; and taking the single building image as a mask, reserving points falling in the foreground when the point cloud is projected to the image, extracting the single building point cloud, and completing the monomerization. By adopting the embodiment of theinvention, the oblique photography building model monomerization device automatically extracts each single building from the building point cloud model, and the efficiency is improved.

A method of identifying a planar object in source images is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes: retrieving a first source image obtained by a first terrestrial based camera; retrieving a second source image obtained by a second terrestrial based camera; retrieving position data associated with the first and second source image; retrieving orientation data associated with the first and second source image; performing a looking axis rotation transformation on the first and second source image by use of the associated position data and orientation data to obtain first and second intermediate images, wherein the first and second intermediate images have an identical looking axis; performing a radial logarithmic space transformation on the first and second intermediate images to obtain first and second radial logarithmic data images; detecting an area in the first image potentially being a planar object; comparing the potential planar object having similar dimensions in the second radial logarithmic data image and similar rgb characteristics; and finally, identifying the area as a planar object and determining its position. At least one embodiment of the method enables the engineer to detect very efficiently planar perpendicular objects in subsequent images.