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- Patent Title: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to measure geographical features using an image of a geographical location
- Patent Title (中): 使用地理位置的图像来测量地理特征的方法,装置和制品
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Application No.: US13314989Application Date: 2011-12-08
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Publication No.: US09002114B2Publication Date: 2015-04-07
- Inventor: David Miller , Pawel Mikolaj Bedynski , Mainak Mazumdar , Ludo Daemen
- Applicant: David Miller , Pawel Mikolaj Bedynski , Mainak Mazumdar , Ludo Daemen
- Applicant Address: US IL Schaumburg
- Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Schaumburg
- Agency: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC
- Main IPC: G06K9/46
- IPC: G06K9/46 ; G06K9/00 ; G06Q30/02

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to measure geographical features using an image of a geographical location are disclosed. An example method includes dividing, with a processor, an image of a geographic area of interest into a plurality of geographical zones, the geographical zones being representative of different geographical areas having approximately equal physical areas, measuring, with the processor, a geographical feature represented in the image for corresponding ones of the plurality of geographical zones, storing descriptions for the geographical zones in a computer memory, and storing values representative of the geographical feature of the geographical zones.
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