Generating a Point of Interest Database with Specific Geographic Locations Derived from Street-Level Image Data
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Abstract
Video drive-by data provides a street level view of a neighborhood surrounding a selected geographic location. A video and data server farm incorporates a video storage server that stores video image files containing video drive-by data corresponding to a geographic location, a database server that processes a data query received from a user over the Internet corresponding to a geographic location of interest, and an image processing server. In operation, the database server identifies video image files stored in the video storage server that correspond to the geographic location of interest contained in the data query and transfers the video image files over a pre-processing network to the image processing server. The image processing server converts the video drive-by data to post-processed video data corresponding to a desired image format and transfers the post-processed video data via a post-processing network to the Internet in response to the query.
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44 Claims
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22. A system comprising:
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an image server that stores image files containing street-level image data, wherein the street-level image data includes GPS information that relates each frame of the image files to a specific geographic location; an interface communicating with the image server via a communication network and configured to display a frame of an image file that captures a geographic location selected by a user; a selector usable by the user to highlight a landmark in the frame capturing the selected geographic location, wherein the landmark has a second geographic location; and a processor configured to determine the second geographic location and to store an indication of the second geographic location together with the frame capturing the selected geographic location. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A system comprising:
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an image server that stores image files, wherein each frame of the image files is associated with a specific geographic location; an interface that communicates with the image server via a communication network, wherein the interface receives input information; and a processor that communicates with the interface and the image server, wherein the processor is configured to identify one of the stored image files that matches the input information, wherein the processor transmits the identified image file to the interface for display. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A system comprising:
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a storage server that stores image files containing drive-by image data, wherein the drive-by image data includes GPS coordinates that relate each digital image of the image files to a specific geographic location; an interface that communicates over a communication network with the storage server, wherein the interface includes an input element through which a user inputs a selected geographic location; and a processing server that communicates with the interface and with the storage server, wherein the processing server identifies a digital image corresponding to the selected geographic location, and wherein the interface displays the identified digital image. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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43. A system comprising:
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a server that stores street-level image data, wherein the image data includes information that relates each frame of the image data to a specific geographic location; an interface communicating with the server via a communication network and configured to display a frame that shows a geographic location selected by a user; a selector usable by the user to highlight a landmark in the frame, wherein the landmark has a second geographic location; and a processor configured to determine the second geographic location and to store an indication of the second geographic location with the frame that shows the selected geographic location. - View Dependent Claims (44)
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