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：US11632602B2

公开(公告)日：2023-04-18

申请号：US17573465

申请日：2022-01-11

Applicant: MFTB Holdco, Inc.

Inventor： Sean P. Cier ,  Sing Bing Kang ,  Mitchell David Dawson ,  Pierre Moulon

IPC: H04N5/445 ,  H04N23/698 ,  G06T7/50 ,  H04N23/53 ,  H04N23/68

Abstract: 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.