公开(公告)号：US11638069B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-25

申请号：US17000236

申请日：2020-08-21

Applicant: MFTB Holdco, Inc.

Inventor： Mitchell David Dawson ,  Li Guan ,  Andrew H. Otwell ,  Dun-Yu Hsiao

IPC: H04N5/225 ,  H04N23/63 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H04N23/698

Abstract: Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations to control acquisition of images in a defined area, including obtaining and using data from one or more hardware sensors on a mobile device that is acquiring the images, analyzing the sensor data (e.g., in a real-time manner) to determine the geometric orientation of the mobile device in three-dimensional (3D) space, and using that determined orientation to control the acquisition of further images by the mobile device. In some situations, the determined orientation information may be used in part to automatically generate and display a corresponding GUI (graphical user interface) that is overlaid on and augments displayed images of the environment surrounding the mobile device during the image acquisition process, so as to control the mobile device's geometric orientation in 3D space.

公开(公告)号：US11627387B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-11

申请号：US16920770

申请日：2020-07-06

Applicant: MFTB Holdco, Inc.

Inventor： Mitchell David Dawson ,  Li Guan ,  Andrew H. Otwell ,  Dun-Yu Hsiao

IPC: H04N5/225 ,  H04N23/63 ,  G06F1/16 ,  H04N23/698

Abstract: Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations to control acquisition of images in a defined area, including obtaining and using data from one or more hardware sensors on a mobile device that is acquiring the images, analyzing the sensor data (e.g., in a real-time manner) to determine the geometric orientation of the mobile device in three-dimensional (3D) space, and using that determined orientation to control the acquisition of further images by the mobile device. In some situations, the determined orientation information may be used in part to automatically generate and display a corresponding GUI (graphical user interface) that is overlaid on and augments displayed images of the environment surrounding the mobile device during the image acquisition process, so as to control the mobile device's geometric orientation in 3D space.

公开(公告)号：US11632516B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-18

申请号：US17367425

申请日：2021-07-05

Applicant: MFTB Holdco, Inc.

Inventor： Ivaylo Boyadzhiev ,  Alex Colburn ,  Li Guan ,  Qi Shan

IPC: H04N5/77 ,  G01P1/12 ,  H04N7/18 ,  G06V10/10 ,  G06V10/44 ,  G06V20/20 ,  G06V20/40 ,  H04N23/698 ,  H04N23/63 ,  H04N23/60

Abstract: Techniques are described for automated operations involving capturing and analyzing information from an interior of a house, building or other structure, for use in generating and providing a representation of that interior. Such techniques may include using a user's mobile device to capture visual data from multiple viewing locations (e.g., video captured while the mobile device is rotated for some or all of a full 360 degree rotation at each viewing location) within multiple rooms, capturing data linking the multiple viewing locations, analyzing each viewing location's visual data to create a panorama image from that viewing location, analyzing the linking data to determine relative positions/directions between at least some viewing locations, creating inter-panorama links in the panoramas to each of one or more other panoramas based on such determined positions/directions, and providing information to display multiple linked panorama images to represent the interior.