Use Of Automated Mapping Information From Inter-Connected Images

Patent №

US 11,480,433

Granted

2022-10-25

Filed 2021

Owner

ZILLOW GROUP, INC.

Lab

AI components

3

vision · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17478740

Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations to generate mapping information using inter-connected images of a defined area, and for using the generated mapping information in further automated manners. In at least some situations, the defined area includes an interior of a multi-room building, and the generated information includes a floor map of the building, such as from an automated analysis of multiple panorama images or other images acquired at various viewing locations within the building—in at least some such situations, the generating is further performed without having detailed information about distances from the images' viewing locations to walls or other objects in the surrounding building. The generated floor map and other mapping-related information may be used in various manners, including for controlling navigation of devices (e.g., autonomous vehicles), for display on one or more client devices in corresponding graphical user interfaces, etc.

VisionPlanningAI hardwareG01C 21/206G06T 19/003G01C 21/383G05D 1/0246G05D 1/0274G06T 7/55G06T 7/60G06T 7/73+13 more

AI classification

Vision1.00
AI hardware0.96
Planning0.74
Knowledge representation0.19
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

ZILLOW GROUP, INC.

assignment · 575200461

Assignors

COLBURN, ALEX, SHAN, QI, MEHRAN, RAMIN, GUAN, LI

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