US 12,260,501 B2
Point cloud filtering
Christopher Frank Eckman, San Francisco, CA (US); Brady Michael Lowe, Pocatello, ID (US); and Alexander Hall, Rexburg, ID (US)
Assigned to Lineage Logistics, LLC, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by Lineage Logistics, LLC, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on May 1, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/651,960.
Application 18/651,960 is a continuation of application No. 18/339,424, filed on Jun. 22, 2023, granted, now 12,002,156.
Application 18/339,424 is a continuation of application No. 17/862,167, filed on Jul. 11, 2022, granted, now 11,734,884, issued on Aug. 22, 2023.
Application 17/862,167 is a continuation of application No. 17/230,730, filed on Apr. 14, 2021, granted, now 11,403,817, issued on Aug. 2, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0355048 A1, Oct. 24, 2024
Int. Cl. G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 18/23 (2023.01); G06T 17/05 (2011.01); G06T 17/20 (2006.01); G06V 20/10 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 17/05 (2013.01) [G06F 18/23 (2023.01); G06T 17/20 (2013.01); G06V 20/176 (2022.01); G06V 20/182 (2022.01); G06V 20/188 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for generating information about a physical environment using point cloud data, the method comprising:
receiving point cloud data of a physical environment, wherein the point cloud data comprises a plurality of points in three-dimensional (3D) space that approximates locations of physical surfaces within the physical environment;
identifying points amongst the plurality of points in the point cloud data that correspond to contours of particular types of the physical surfaces within the physical environment;
reducing the plurality of points in the point cloud data to a set of the identified points;
generating information about the physical environment based at least in part on the set of the identified points, wherein the set of the identified points comprises the contours of the particular types of the physical surfaces within the physical environment; and
returning the information about the physical environment.