Connecting and using building data acquired from mobile devices
US11165959B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 7, 2020 |
| Grant date | Nov 2, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 7, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N23/64
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques are described for automated operations involving acquiring and analyzing information from an interior of a house, building or other structure, for use in generating and providing a representation of that interior. Such techniques may include using a user's mobile device to capture video data from multiple viewing locations (e.g., 360° video at each viewing location) within multiple rooms, and capturing data linking the multiple viewing locations (e.g., by recording video, acceleration and/or other data from the mobile device as the user moves between the two viewing locations), creating a panorama image for each viewing location, analyzing the linking information to model the user's travel path and determine relative positions/directions between at least some viewing locations, creating inter-panorama links in the panoramas to each of one or more other panoramas based on such determined positions/directions, and providing information to display multiple linked panorama images to represent the interior.
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