Enhanced Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Damage Inspection

Patent №

US 9,505,494

Granted

2016-11-29

Filed 2015

Owner

ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY

Lab

AI components

4

vision · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14700469

Systems and methods for performing insurance damage inspection by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are provided. A computing device may receive a request to inspect a vehicle, the request comprising a location of the vehicle. The computing device may identify a UAV from a plurality of UAVs that is located closest to the location of the vehicle from other UAVs in the plurality of UAVs. The computing device may instruct the UAV to travel to the location of the vehicle. The computing device may instruct the UAV to collect damage information on the vehicle using one or more onboard sensors of the UAV. The computing device may determine an amount of insurance payout to approve for repairs to the vehicle based on the damage information collected by the UAV.

VisionKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06Q 40/08G05D 1/0011G05D 1/0094G05D 1/106B64U 2101/30B64U 2201/00

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation0.99
Vision0.91
AI hardware0.91
Evolutionary computation0.02
Speech0.00
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

ALLSTATE INSURANCE COMPANY

assignment · 364340875

Assignors

MARLOW, CLINT J., CORDER, BRYAN KEITH

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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