84 patents
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Utility
Multi-resolution surface clipping with asynchronous incremental on-demand marking of spatial index nodes
23 Feb 21
In various embodiments, techniques are provided for clipping and displaying a multi-resolution textured mesh using asynchronous incremental on-demand marking of spatial index nodes to allow for substantially real-time display refresh after a change is made to clip geometry.
Elenie Godzaridis, Mathieu St-Pierre
Filed: 11 Nov 19
Utility
Techniques for improving perception of projections of subsurface features on a terrain surface in augmented reality
23 Feb 21
In one embodiment, techniques are provided for improving perception of representations of subsurface features (e.g., virtual paint markings) in augmented reality.
Stéphane Côté, Jade Marcoux-Ouellet
Filed: 1 Nov 18
Utility
Techniques for displaying augmentations that represent cadastral lines and other near-ground features
23 Feb 21
In one embodiment, an augmented reality application executing on an augmented reality device accesses a representation of the physical environment.
Stéphane Côté, Marc-André Bouvrette, Danny Lebel
Filed: 15 Jan 19
Utility
Techniques for concurrently editing fully connected large-scale multi-dimensional spatial data
23 Feb 21
In an example embodiment, techniques are provided for concurrently editing fully-connected large-scale multi-dimensional spatial data (e.g., a large-scale 3-D mesh) by ensuring that edits performed by multiple clients are non-conflicting edits that are “trivially” mergeable (e.g. mergeable simply via cut-and-paste operations).
Elenie Godzaridis, Luc Robert, Jean-Philippe Pons, Stephane Nullans
Filed: 17 Jul 19
Utility
Variational Technique for Texturing a Mesh from Multiple Views
11 Feb 21
In various example embodiments, a variational technique is provided for texturing a polygon mesh based on source images of a scene.
Jean-Philippe Pons
Filed: 23 Dec 19
Utility
Determining One or More Scanner Positions In a Point Cloud
25 Nov 20
In an example embodiment, a process may select high density points from a point cloud.
Cyril Novel, Alexandre Gbaguidi Aisse
Filed: 1 Aug 19
Utility
Locking of Spatial Regions of Large-scale Fully-connected Multi-dimensional Spatial Data for Collaborative Updating
11 Nov 20
In an example embodiment, techniques are provided for locking a region of fully-connected large-scale multi-dimensional spatial data (e.g., a large-scale 3-D mesh) defined by a bounding box.
Elenie Godzaridis, Luc Robert, Jean-Philippe Pons, Stephane Nullans
Filed: 12 Jun 19
Utility
Techniques for Concurrently Editing Fully Connected Large-scale Multi-dimensional Spatial Data
11 Nov 20
In an example embodiment, techniques are provided for concurrently editing fully-connected large-scale multi-dimensional spatial data (e.g., a large-scale 3-D mesh) by ensuring that edits performed by multiple clients are non-conflicting edits that are “trivially” mergeable (e.g. mergeable simply via cut-and-paste operations).
Elenie Godzaridis, Luc Robert, Jean-Philippe Pons, Stephane Nullans
Filed: 16 Jul 19
Utility
3-D screen menus
24 Aug 20
In one embodiment, techniques are used to create a customized 3-D menu for controlling an application (e.g., a CAD application) leveraging the application's native storage format to describe the menu's appearance and function.
Barry J. Bentley, Gino Cortesi, R. Brien Bastings
Filed: 4 Apr 16
Utility
Techniques for accurate and faithful projections in an outdoor augmented reality view
24 Aug 20
In one embodiment, techniques are provided for projecting information (e.g., describing subsurface features such as subsurface utilities) onto a surface (e.g., road surface) of the physical environment using pre-captured topography (e.g., determined by structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry) and pre-projection of the information onto the pre-captured topography.
Stéphane Côté
Filed: 16 Aug 18
Utility
Estimating subsurface feature locations during excavation
24 Aug 20
In one embodiment, techniques are provided for capturing accurate information describing the location of subsurface features (e.g., subsurface utilities such as water pipes, sewer pipes, electrical conduits, etc.) usable in providing an augmented reality view.
Stéphane Côté
Filed: 16 Aug 18
Utility
Techniques for application undo and redo using SQL patchsets or changesets
3 Aug 20
In one embodiment, undo and redo operations of an application are implemented using patchsets or changesets.
Keith A. Bentley
Filed: 29 Oct 15
Utility
Structure Depth-aware Weighting In Bundle Adjustment
29 Apr 20
In various embodiments, techniques are provided for photogrammetric 3D model reconstruction that modify the optimization performed in bundle adjustment operations of an automatic SfM stage to apply a depth-aware weighting to reprojection error of each 3D point used in the optimization.
Nicolas Gros
Filed: 2 Jan 19
Utility
Dynamic Frontend-driven Generation of an Hlod Tree
15 Apr 20
In example embodiments, techniques are provided for frontend-driven, incremental HLOD sub-tree creation and dynamic generation of tiles.
Paul Connelly, Raymond B. Bentley
Filed: 10 Oct 19
Utility
Changeset Conflict Rebasing
15 Apr 20
In example embodiments, techniques are provided to implement changeset conflict rebasing when performing conflict-detection and merging in an infrastructure modeling software architecture that uses an optimistic concurrency policy.
Samuel W. Wilson, Keith A. Bentley
Filed: 18 Jul 19
Utility
Technique for Generating a Change Cache Database Utilized to Inspect Changes Made to a Repository
15 Apr 20
In one embodiment, techniques are provided for generating a change cache database utilized to inspect changes made to a repository.
Ramanujam Raman, Affan Khan, Krischan Eberle, Casey Mullen
Filed: 9 Oct 18
Utility
Conversion of Infrastructure Model Geometry to a Tile Format
15 Apr 20
In example embodiments, techniques are provided for converting geometry of an infrastructure model represented as high-level geometric primitives having a given symbology to low-level primitives, and encoding these low-level primitives into tile contents suited for transmission, and ultimately display upon, on a client device.
Paul Connelly, Raymond B. Bentley
Filed: 10 Oct 19
Utility
Efficient Refinement of Tiles of a Hlod Tree
15 Apr 20
In example embodiments, techniques are provided for decoupling user access to infrastructure models from proprietary software that maintains and updates the infrastructure models.
Paul Connelly, Raymond B. Bentley
Filed: 9 Oct 19
Utility
Computer-implemented land planning system and method with GIS integration
6 Apr 20
A computer-implemented land planning system is designed to generate at least one conceptual fit solution to a user-defined land development problem.
Michael W. Detwiler, James W. Reynolds, Jr., Anthony H. Watts, Ron Breukelaar, Thomas Baeck
Filed: 31 Jul 17
Utility
Tool for onsite augmentation of past events
23 Mar 20
In one embodiment, at an initial time, a capture system records a 3D video stream and an audio stream of a first user interacting with the physical environment.
Stéphane Côté, Marc-Andre Bouvrette
Filed: 10 Sep 17