Computerized locus investigation system for motor vehicle claims adjusters
First Claim
1. A locus investigation system for insurance claims adjusters, comprising:
- a database of digitized photographs of road and street intersections, wherein photographs stored in said database are retrievable through search queries comprising geographical address information.
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Abstract
A computerized locus investigation system for motor vehicles claims adjusters comprises an Internet-accessible database of photographs of street intersections and other potential motor vehicle accident sites (including intersections of any type of private or public ways accessible to motor vehicles), retrievable by queries specifying the intersecting streets or ways of interest. The database is comprised of images photographed using a digital still camera having voice recording means, for use by the photographer to tag each image with identifying geographical address information. Said voice-recorded address information is thereafter employed to provide each image file with a filename and textual description containing elements of the voiced address information.
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20 Claims
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1. A locus investigation system for insurance claims adjusters, comprising:
a database of digitized photographs of road and street intersections, wherein photographs stored in said database are retrievable through search queries comprising geographical address information. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for developing a database of digitized photographs of roadway locations including street intersections, for use by insurance claims adjusters in making locus investigations, said method comprising the steps of:
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(a) taking a plurality of photographs at each of a plurality of street intersections, whereby, for each street intersection photographed, at least one photograph of the intersection is taken from each direction of each street entering said intersection;
(b) entering a digitized copy of each said at least one photograph into a database of electronically retrievable images. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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