Automated Determination Of Image Acquisition Locations In Building Interiors Using Multiple Data Capture Devices

Patent №

US 11,632,602

Granted

2023-04-18

Filed 2022

Owner

ZILLOW GROUP, INC.

Lab

AI components

2

vision · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17573465

Techniques are described for using multiple devices to automatically determine the acquisition location of an image from a camera device, such as within a building interior and by using data from the multiple devices (e.g., visual data from the camera device's image, and additional data captured by a separate mobile computing device in the same area as the camera device), and for subsequently using determined image acquisition location information in one or more further automated manners. The image may be a panorama image or of another type, and the determined acquisition location for such an image may be at least a location on the building's floor plan—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.

VisionAI hardwareG01C 21/383H04N 23/698G01C 21/206G06T 7/50G06T 7/579G06T 7/73H04N 5/445H04N 23/53+4 more

AI classification

AI hardware0.99
Vision0.85
Planning0.21
Evolutionary computation0.02
Speech0.01
Machine learning0.01
Knowledge representation0.01
Natural language0.01

Ownership

ZILLOW GROUP, INC.

assignment · 586240114

Assignors

CIER, SEAN P, KANG, SING BING, DAWSON, MITCHELL DAVID, MOULON, PIERRE

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