Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Capture and use of building interior data from mobile devices
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Application No.: US15649427Application Date: 2017-07-13
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Publication No.: US10375306B2Publication Date: 2019-08-06
- Inventor: Qi Shan , Alex Colburn , Li Guan , Ivaylo Boyadzhiev
- Applicant: Zillow Group, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Zillow Group, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Zillow Group, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: VLP Law Group LLP
- Agent James A. D. White
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; G01P1/12 ; H04N7/18 ; H04N5/77 ; G06K9/00 ; G06K9/22

Abstract:
Techniques are described for automated operations involving capturing 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 visual data from multiple viewing locations (e.g., video captured while the mobile device is rotated for some or all of a full 360 degree rotation at each viewing location) within multiple rooms, capturing data linking the multiple viewing locations, analyzing each viewing location's visual data to create a panorama image from that viewing location, analyzing the linking data to 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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190020816A1 CAPTURE AND USE OF BUILDING INTERIOR DATA FROM MOBILE DEVICES Public/Granted day:2019-01-17
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