Patents Assigned to Matterport, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11600046
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating three-dimensional models with correlated three-dimensional and two dimensional imagery data are provided. In particular, imagery data can be captured in two dimensions and three dimensions. Imagery data can be transformed into models. Two-dimensional data and three-dimensional data can be correlated within models. Two-dimensional data can be selected for display within a three-dimensional model. Modifications can be made to the three-dimensional model and can be displayed within a three-dimensional model or within two-dimensional data. Models can transition between two dimensional imagery data and three dimensional imagery data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Tschudy Bell, David Alan Gausebeck, Gregory William Coombe, Daniel Ford, William John Brown
  • Patent number: 11551410
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a methodology that allows a user to “orbit” around a model on a specific axis of rotation and view an orthographic floor plan of the model. A user may view and “walk through” the model while staying at a specific height above the ground with smooth transitions between orbiting, floor plan, and walking modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Bell, Michael Beebe
  • Publication number: 20220334262
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a housing, a mount configured to be coupled to a motor to horizontally move the apparatus, a wide-angle lens coupled to the housing, the wide-angle lens being positioned above the mount thereby being along an axis of rotation, the axis of rotation being the axis along which the apparatus rotates, an image capture device within the housing, the image capture device configured to receive two-dimensional images through the wide-angle lens of environment, and a LiDAR device within the housing, the LiDAR device configured to generate depth data based on the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: David Alan Gausebeck, Kirk Stromberg, Louis D. Marzano, David Proctor, Naoto Sakakibara, Simeon Trieu, Kevin Kane, Simon Wynn
  • Publication number: 20220317307
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising a housing, a mount configured to be coupled to a motor to horizontally move the apparatus, a wide-angle lens coupled to the housing, the wide-angle lens being positioned above the mount thereby being along an axis of rotation, the axis of rotation being the axis along which the apparatus rotates, an image capture device within the housing, the image capture device configured to receive two-dimensional images through the wide-angle lens of environment, and a LiDAR device within the housing, the LiDAR device configured to generate depth data based on the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: David Alan Gausebeck, Kirk Stromberg, Louis D. Marzano, David Proctor, Naoto Sakakibara, Simeon Trieu, Kevin Kane, Simon Wynn
  • Patent number: 11422671
    Abstract: This application generally relates to defining, displaying and interacting with tags in a 3D model. In an embodiment, a method includes generating, by a system including a processor, a three-dimensional model of an environment based on sets of aligned three-dimensional data captured from the environment, and associating tags with defined locations of the three-dimensional model, wherein the tags are respectively represented by tag icons that are spatially aligned with the defined locations of the three-dimensional model as included in different representations of the three-dimensional model rendered via an interface of a device, wherein the different representations correspond to different perspectives of the three-dimensional model, and wherein selection of the tag icons causes the tags respectively associated therewith to be rendered at the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: James Mildrew, Matthew Tschudy Bell, Dustin Michael Cook, Preston Cowley, Lester Lee, Peter McColgan, Daniel Prochazka, Brian Schulman, James Sundra, Alan Tan
  • Patent number: 11379992
    Abstract: Systems and methods for frame and scene segmentation are disclosed herein. One method includes associating a first primary element from a first frame with a background tag, associating a second primary element from the first frame with a subject tag, generating a background texture using the first primary element, generating a foreground texture using the second primary element, and combining the background texture and the foreground texture into a synthesized frame. The method also includes training a segmentation network using the background tag, the foreground tag, and the synthesized frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Bradski, Prasanna Krishnasamy, Mona Fathollahi, Michael Tetelman
  • Publication number: 20220207849
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter is directed to employing machine learning models configured to predict 3D data from 2D images using deep learning techniques to derive 3D data for the 2D images. In some embodiments, a method is provided that comprises receiving, by a system comprising a processor, a panoramic image, and employing, by the system, a three-dimensional data from two-dimensional data (3D-from-2D) convolutional neural network model to derive three-dimensional data from the panoramic image, wherein the 3D-from-2D convolutional neural network model employs convolutional layers that wrap around the panoramic image as projected on a two-dimensional plane to facilitate deriving the three-dimensional data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventor: David Alan Gausebeck
  • Patent number: 11282287
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter is directed to employing machine learning models configured to predict 3D data from 2D images using deep learning techniques to derive 3D data for the 2D images. In some embodiments, a method is provided that comprises receiving, by a system comprising a processor, a panoramic image, and employing, by the system, a three-dimensional data from two-dimensional data (3D-from-2D) convolutional neural network model to derive three-dimensional data from the panoramic image, wherein the 3D-from-2D convolutional neural network model employs convolutional layers that wrap around the panoramic image as projected on a two-dimensional plane to facilitate deriving the three-dimensional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventor: David Alan Gausebeck
  • Publication number: 20220075080
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, apparatus and/or computer program products are provided that facilitate improving the accuracy of global positioning system (GPS) coordinates of indoor photos. The disclosed subject matter further provides systems, computer-implemented methods, apparatus and/or computer program products that facilitate generating exterior photos of structures based on GPS coordinates of indoor photos.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: Gunnar Hovden, Scott Adams
  • Patent number: 11263823
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter is directed to employing machine learning models configured to predict 3D data from 2D images using deep learning techniques to derive 3D data for the 2D images. In some embodiments, a method is provided that comprises employing, by a system comprising a processor, one or more three-dimensional data from two-dimensional data (3D-from-2D) neural network models to derive three-dimensional data from one or more two-dimensional images captured of an object or environment from a current perspective of the object or environment viewed on or through a display of the device. The method further comprises, determining, by the system, a position for integrating a graphical data object on or within a representation of the object or environment viewed on or through the display based on the current perspective and the three-dimensional data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: David Alan Gausebeck, Babak Robert Shakib
  • Publication number: 20220058414
    Abstract: Systems and methods for registering arbitrary visual features for use as fiducial elements are disclosed. An example method includes aligning a geometric reference object and a visual feature and capturing an image of the reference object and feature. The method also includes identifying, in the image of the object and the visual feature, a set of at least four non-colinear feature points in the visual feature. The method also includes deriving, from the image, a coordinate system using the geometric object. The method also comprises providing a set of measures to each of the points in the set of at least four non-colinear feature points using the coordinate system. The measures can then be saved in a memory to represent the registered visual feature and serve as the basis for using the registered visual feature as a fiducial element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Bradski, Gholamreza Amayeh, Mona Fathollahi, Ethan Rublee, Grace Vesom, William Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20210375047
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for processing and/or transmitting three-dimensional (3D) data are presented. A partitioning component receives captured 3D data associated with a 3D model of an interior environment and partitions the captured 3D data into at least one data chunk associated with at least a first level of detail and a second level of detail. A data component stores 3D data including at least the first level of detail and the second level of detail for the at least one data chunk. An output component transmits a portion of data from the at least one data chunk that is associated with the first level of detail or the second level of detail to a remote client device based on information associated with the first level of detail and the second level of detail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Tschudy Bell, David Alan Gausebeck, Gregory William Coombe, Daniel Ford
  • Publication number: 20210374410
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for increasing the accuracy of automated classifications produced by a machine learning engine. Specifically, the classification produced by a machine learning engine for one photo-realistic image is adjusted based on the classifications produced by the machine learning engine for other photo-realistic images that correspond to the same portion of a 3D model that has been generated based on the photo-realistic images. Techniques are also provided for using the classifications of the photo-realistic images that were used to create a 3D model to automatically classify portions of the 3D model. The classifications assigned to the various portions of the 3D model in this manner may also be used as a factor for automatically segmenting the 3D model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: Gunnar Hovden, Mykhaylo Kurinnyy
  • Patent number: 11189031
    Abstract: Methods and systems regarding importance sampling for the modification of a training procedure used to train a segmentation network are disclosed herein. A disclosed method includes segmenting an image using a trainable directed graph to generate a segmentation, displaying the segmentation, receiving a first selection directed to the segmentation, and modifying a training procedure for the trainable directed graph using the first selection. In a more specific method, the training procedure alters a set of trainable values associated with the trainable directed graph based on a delta between the segmentation and a ground truth segmentation, the first selection is spatially indicative with respect to the segmentation, and the delta is calculated based on the first selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Bradski, Ethan Rublee, Mona Fathollahi, Michael Tetelman, Ian Meeder, Varsha Vivek, William Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11164394
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter is directed to employing machine learning models configured to predict 3D data from 2D images using deep learning techniques to derive 3D data for the 2D images. In some embodiments, a method is provided that comprises receiving, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a two-dimensional image, and determining, by the system, auxiliary data for the two-dimensional image, wherein the auxiliary data comprises orientation information regarding a capture orientation of the two-dimensional image. The method further comprises, deriving, by the system, three-dimensional information for the two-dimensional image using one or more neural network models configured to infer the three-dimensional information based on the two-dimensional image and the auxiliary data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventor: David Alan Gausebeck
  • Publication number: 20210335034
    Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a methodology that allows a user to “orbit” around a model on a specific axis of rotation and view an orthographic floor plan of the model. A user may view and “walk through” the model while staying at a specific height above the ground with smooth transitions between orbiting, floor plan, and walking modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Bell, Michael Beebe
  • Publication number: 20210264609
    Abstract: Systems and methods for user guided iterative frame and scene segmentation are disclosed herein. The systems and methods can rely on overtraining a segmentation network on a frame. A disclosed method includes selecting a frame from a scene and generating a frame segmentation using the frame and a segmentation network. The method also includes displaying the frame and frame segmentation overlain on the frame, receiving a correction input on the frame, and training the segmentation network using the correction input. The method includes overtraining the segmentation network for the scene by iterating the above steps on the same frame or a series of frames from the scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventor: Gary Bradski
  • Patent number: 11094137
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter is directed to employing machine learning models configured to predict 3D data from 2D images using deep learning techniques to derive 3D data for the 2D images. In some embodiments, a system is described comprising a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components comprise a reception component configured to receive two-dimensional images, and a three-dimensional data derivation component configured to employ one or more three-dimensional data from two-dimensional data (3D-from-2D) neural network models to derive three-dimensional data for the two-dimensional images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: David Alan Gausebeck, Matthew Tschudy Bell, Waleed K. Abdulla, Peter Kyuhee Hahn
  • Patent number: 11094117
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for processing and/or transmitting three-dimensional (3D) data are presented. A partitioning component receives captured 3D data associated with a 3D model of an interior environment and partitions the captured 3D data into at least one data chunk associated with at least a first level of detail and a second level of detail. A data component stores 3D data including at least the first level of detail and the second level of detail for the at least one data chunk. An output component transmits a portion of data from the at least one data chunk that is associated with the first level of detail or the second level of detail to a remote client device based on information associated with the first level of detail and the second level of detail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Tschudy Bell, David Alan Gausebeck, Gregory William Coombe, Daniel Ford
  • Patent number: 11080884
    Abstract: A trained network for point tracking includes an input layer configured to receive an encoding of an image. The image is of a locale or object on which the network has been trained. The network also includes a set of internal weights which encode information associated with the locale or object, and a tracked point therein or thereon. The network also includes an output layer configured to provide an output based on the image as received at the input layer and the set of internal weights. The output layer includes a point tracking node that tracks the tracked point in the image. The point tracking node can track the point by generating coordinates for the tracked point in an input image of the locale or object. Methods of specifying and training the network using a three-dimensional model of the locale or object are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary Bradski, Gholamreza Amayeh, Mona Fathollahi, Ethan Rublee, Grace Vesom, William Nguyen