Abstract: Embodiments for determining an orientation of a scanned image. In an exemplary embodiment, a method comprises receiving image data of an image of one or more objects. Each object of the one or more objects in the image includes a plurality of points on a surface of the object. The method further comprises generating a plurality of subsets of points of the plurality of points and fitting a parametric model to more than one subset of the plurality of subsets to generate a plurality of parametric models. Further, the method identifies a parametric model of the plurality of parametric models that includes the largest number of points and orients the image based on the parametric model that includes the largest number of points.

Abstract: A dynamically paged non-volatile random access video store has a random access memory integrated with a disk drive. The random access memory provides realtime access for recording and playing back video from and to a video source. The disk drive provides a non-volatile backup for the random access memory by transferring data between the disk drive and random access memory automatically, or by command, on a non-realtime basis. The video data accesses and transfers are handled by a microprocessor that interfaces with a controller by which an operator inputs instructions. Multiple channels are accommodated via a channel interface, also controlled by the microprocessor, between external video devices and the random access memory. The disk drive stores a plurality of pages of video data, each page corresponding to the capacity of the random access memory.