Automated tools for generating building mapping information

    公开(公告)号:US11797159B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-24

    申请号:US18099608

    申请日:2023-01-20

    CPC classification number: G06F3/0484 G06T19/00 H04W4/024 G06T2210/04

    Abstract: Techniques are described for computing devices to perform automated operations related to using images acquired in a building as part of generating a floor plan for the building, in some cases without using depth information from depth-sensing equipment about distances from the images' acquisition locations to objects in the surrounding building, and for subsequent use in further automated manners, such as controlling navigation of mobile devices and/or for display to end users in a corresponding GUI (graphical user interface). In some cases, the MIGM system interacts with an MIGM system operator user, such as by displaying a GUI showing information related to the images and/or a floor plan being generated, and by receiving and using input submitted by the user via the GUI to assist with the generating of the floor plan, such as to specify interconnections between particular rooms via particular inter-room wall openings of the rooms.

    Automated inter-image analysis of multiple building images for building information determination

    公开(公告)号:US12175562B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-12-24

    申请号:US18114951

    申请日:2023-02-27

    Abstract: Techniques are described for automated operations to analyze visual data from images acquired in multiple rooms of a building to generate one or more types of building information (e.g., global inter-image pose data, a floor plan for the building, etc.), such as by simultaneously or otherwise concurrently analyzing groups of three or more images having at least pairwise visual overlap between pairs of those images to determine information that includes global inter-image pose and structural element locations, and for subsequently using the generated building information in one or more further automated manners, with the building information generation further performed in some cases without having or using information from any distance-measuring devices about distances from an image's acquisition location to walls or other objects in the surrounding room.

    Presenting Building Information Using Building Models

    公开(公告)号:US20230316660A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-05

    申请号:US18208271

    申请日:2023-06-10

    Abstract: Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations related to providing visual information of multiple types in an integrated manner about a building or other defined area. The techniques may include generating and presenting a GUI (graphical user interface) on a client device that includes a computer model of the building's interior with one or more first types of information (e.g., in a first pane of the GUI), and simultaneously presenting other types of related information about the building interior (e.g., in additional separate GUI pane(s)) that is coordinated with the first type(s) of information being currently displayed. The computer model may be a 3D (three-dimensional) or 2.5D representation generated after the house is built and showing the actual house's interior (e.g., walls, furniture, etc.), and may be displayed to a user of a client computing device in a displayed GUI with various user-selectable controls.

    Automated Tools For Generating Building Mapping Information

    公开(公告)号:US20230161463A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-25

    申请号:US18099608

    申请日:2023-01-20

    CPC classification number: G06F3/0484 H04W4/024 G06T19/00 G06T2210/04

    Abstract: Techniques are described for computing devices to perform automated operations related to using images acquired in a building as part of generating a floor plan for the building, in some cases without using depth information from depth-sensing equipment about distances from the images' acquisition locations to objects in the surrounding building, and for subsequent use in further automated manners, such as controlling navigation of mobile devices and/or for display to end users in a corresponding GUI (graphical user interface). In some cases, the MIGM system interacts with an MIGM system operator user, such as by displaying a GUI showing information related to the images and/or a floor plan being generated, and by receiving and using input submitted by the user via the GUI to assist with the generating of the floor plan, such as to specify interconnections between particular rooms via particular inter-room wall openings of the rooms.

    Automated Building Floor Plan Generation Using Visual Data Of Multiple Building Images

    公开(公告)号:US20230138762A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-04

    申请号:US17585433

    申请日:2022-01-26

    Abstract: Techniques are described for automated operations to analyze visual data from panorama images captured in multiple rooms of a building and having little-to-no visual overlap in order to generate a floor plan for the building, and subsequently using the generated floor plan in one or more further automated manners, with the floor plan generation further performed in some cases without having or using information from any distance-measuring devices about distances from an image's acquisition location to walls or other objects in the surrounding room. The automated operations may include identifying and aligning pairs of target images acquired at acquisition locations proximate to each other, refining the alignment of inter-image directions and acquisition locations into a global alignment using a common coordinate system, and then using information identified from the images' visual data that includes structural room layouts to generate the floor plan of the building.

    Presenting building information using building models

    公开(公告)号:US11935196B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-19

    申请号:US18208271

    申请日:2023-06-10

    Abstract: Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations related to providing visual information of multiple types in an integrated manner about a building or other defined area. The techniques may include generating and presenting a GUI (graphical user interface) on a client device that includes a computer model of the building's interior with one or more first types of information (e.g., in a first pane of the GUI), and simultaneously presenting other types of related information about the building interior (e.g., in additional separate GUI pane(s)) that is coordinated with the first type(s) of information being currently displayed. The computer model may be a 3D (three-dimensional) or 2.5D representation generated after the house is built and showing the actual house's interior (e.g., walls, furniture, etc.), and may be displayed to a user of a client computing device in a displayed GUI with various user-selectable controls.

    Automated tools for generating building mapping information

    公开(公告)号:US11592969B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-28

    申请号:US17069800

    申请日:2020-10-13

    Abstract: Techniques are described for computing devices to perform automated operations related to using images acquired in a building as part of generating a floor plan for the building, in some cases without using depth information from depth-sensing equipment about distances from the images' acquisition locations to objects in the surrounding building, and for subsequent use in further automated manners, such as controlling navigation of mobile devices and/or for display to end users in a corresponding GUI (graphical user interface). In some cases, the MIGM system interacts with an MIGM system operator user, such as by displaying a GUI showing information related to the images and/or a floor plan being generated, and by receiving and using input submitted by the user via the GUI to assist with the generating of the floor plan, such as to specify interconnections between particular rooms via particular inter-room wall openings of the rooms.

    Automated tools for incremental generation of building mapping information

    公开(公告)号:US12260156B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-03-25

    申请号:US17872914

    申请日:2022-07-25

    Abstract: Techniques are described for computing devices to perform automated operations related to using images acquired in a building as part of an automated generation process of a floor plan or other mapping information for the building, in some cases without using depth information from depth-sensing equipment about distances from the images' acquisition locations to objects in the surrounding building, and for subsequent use in further automated manners, such as controlling navigation of mobile devices and/or for display to end users in a corresponding graphical user interface. The automated analysis and assessment of the building images may, for example, include incrementally generating partial versions of the mapping information, determining acquisition instructions related to further acquisition of additional images and/or other types of data (e.g., to reduce uncertainty associated with portions of the partial mapping information or otherwise obtain missing data), and providing corresponding guidance in or more manners.

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