Automated Determination Of Image Acquisition Locations In Building Interiors Using Determined Room Shapes
Patent №
US 11,481,925
Granted
2022-10-25
Filed 2021
Owner
ZILLOW GROUP, INC.
Lab
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AI components
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vision
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
17201996
Techniques are described for computing devices to perform automated operations to determine the acquisition locations of images, such as within a building interior based on automatically determined shapes of rooms of the building, and for using the determined image acquisition location information in further automated manners. The image may be a panorama image or of another type (e.g., a rectilinear perspective image) and acquired at an acquisition location in a multi-room building's interior, and the determined acquisition location for such an image may be at least a location on the building's floor plan and optionally an orientation/direction for at least a part of the image—in addition, the automated image acquisition location determination may be further performed without having or using information from any depth sensors or other distance-measuring devices about distances from an image's acquisition location to walls or other objects in the surrounding building.
AI classification
Ownership
ZILLOW GROUP, INC.
assignment · 555960530
Assignors
LI, YUGUANG, HUTCHCROFT, WILL ADRIAN, KHOSRAVAN, NAJI, BOYADZHIEV, IVAYLO
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