US Patent 10204448 System and method for portable active 3D scanning

A method for generating a three-dimensional model of an object, by a scanning system including a client-side device including: an acquisition system configured to capture images; and an interaction system including a display device and a network interface includes: capturing a plurality of images of the object by the acquisition system, the images being captured from a plurality of different poses of the acquisition system; computing depth maps from the images of the objects, each of the depth maps corresponding to one of the poses of the acquisition system; combining the depth maps to generate a combined point cloud; and displaying, on the display device, the combined point cloud or a 3D mesh model generated from the combined point cloud.