US 12,141,922 B2
Object modeling using light projection
Chen Cao, Los Angeles, CA (US); Menglei Chai, Los Angeles, CA (US); Linjie Luo, Los Angeles, CA (US); and Soumyadip Sengupta, Hyattsville, MD (US)
Assigned to Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed by Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/216,327.
Application 18/216,327 is a continuation of application No. 17/499,659, filed on Oct. 12, 2021, granted, now 11,710,275.
Application 17/499,659 is a continuation of application No. 16/116,590, filed on Aug. 29, 2018, granted, now 11,164,376.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/552,206, filed on Aug. 30, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0343033 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06T 17/30 (2006.01); G06V 20/64 (2022.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01)
CPC G06T 17/30 (2013.01) [G06V 20/647 (2022.01); G06V 40/165 (2022.01); G06V 40/171 (2022.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
identifying an initial three-dimensional (3D) virtual model from an image of an object;
generating, using one or more processors of a machine, an updated 3D virtual model of the object by projecting normal vectors of the initial 3D virtual model onto light cones from points in the image; and
generating a modified image of the image by mapping the image as a texture on the updated 3D virtual model of the object.