Estimating a condition of a physical structure

US11270504B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · US

Inventors

• James M. Freeman · Normal, US
• Roger D. Schmidgall · Normal, US
• Patrick H. Boyer · Bloomington, US
• Nicholas U. Christopulos · Bloomington, US
• Jonathan D. Maurer · Bloomington, US
• Nathan L. Tofte · Downs, US
• Jackie O. Jordan, II · Bloomington, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 26, 2020
• Grant date: Mar 8, 2022
• Expiry date: May 29, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T2207/10032
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

In a computer-implemented method and system for capturing the condition of a structure, the structure is scanned with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV receives an instruction to collect information on at least one aspect of a property, and identifies one or more onboard sensors of the UAV to collect the information on the at least one aspect of the property, where the UAV is configured to identify a first set of one or more onboard sensors to collect a first type of data and to identify a second set of one or more onboard sensors to collect a second type of data. The UAV also collects the information on the at least one aspect of the property using the one or more onboard sensors, and identifies, based on the collected information, a type of damage incurred on the at least one aspect of the property.