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US11830145B2 · US · B2
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Publication number | US-11830145-B2 |
| Application number | US-202117479866-A |
| Country | US |
| Kind code | B2 |
| Filing date | Sep 20, 2021 |
| Priority date | Sep 20, 2021 |
| Publication date | Nov 28, 2023 |
| Grant date | Nov 28, 2023 |
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A manifold voxel mesh or surface mesh is manufacturable by carving a single block of material and a non-manifold mesh is not manufacturable. Conventional techniques for constructing or extracting a surface mesh from an input point cloud often produce a non-manifold voxel mesh. Similarly, extracting a surface mesh from a voxel mesh that includes non-manifold geometry produces a surface mesh that includes non-manifold geometry. To ensure that the surface mesh includes only manifold geometry, locations of the non-manifold geometry in the voxel mesh are detected and converted into manifold geometry. The result is a manifold voxel mesh from which a manifold surface mesh of the object may be extracted.
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What is claimed is: 1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: receiving a non-manifold voxel mesh model of an object; identifying a location in the non-manifold voxel mesh model of non-manifold geometry, wherein identifying comprises performing a convolution operation by applying a three-dimensional (3D) kernel of pattern mask values to each voxel in the non-manifold voxel mesh model; inserting an additional voxel into the voxel mesh model at the location to convert the non-manifold voxel mesh model into a modified voxel mesh model; and extracting a manifold surface mesh of the object from the modified voxel mesh model. 2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the non-manifold geometry is a non-manifold vertex. 3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein identifying further comprises performing the convolution operation by applying rotated versions of the 3D kernel to each voxel in the non-manifold voxel mesh model. 4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 , wherein the 3D kernel is centered on the voxel and comprises the pattern mask values of [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ] , [ - 1 - 1 0 - 1 0 0 0 0 0 ] , [ 6 - 1 0 - 1 - 1 0 0 0 0 ] . 5. The computer-implemented method of claim 3 , wherein the 3D kernel is centered on the voxel and comprises the pattern mask values of [ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ] , [ - 1 - 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 ] , [ - 1 1 0 - 1 - 1 0 0 0 0 ] . 6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the non-manifold geometry is a no
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- A manifold voxel mesh or surface mesh is manufacturable by carving a single block of material and a non-manifold mesh is not manufacturable. Conventional techniques for constructing or extracting a surface mesh from an input point cloud often produce a non-manifold voxel mesh. Similarly, extracting a surface mesh from a voxel mesh that includes non-manifold geometry produces a surface mesh that…
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