Method and System for Quick Square Roof Reporting

• US 20130246204A1
• Filed: 03/19/2012
• Published: 09/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pictometry International Corporation (EagleView Technologies Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Pictometry International Corporation (EagleView Technologies Incorporated)
• Inventors: Thornberry, Chris T., Thornberry, Dale R.
• Granted Patent: US 9,183,538 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/08 Construction
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/16 Real estate
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30184 Infrastructure
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/62 of area, perimeter, diameter or volume

Abstract

A set of instructions stored on one or more computer readable medium for running on one or more computer systems is described herein. The set of instructions generally may include instructions for identifying a geographic location of a roof, instructions for determining contact information of one or more contractors within a region of interest of the geographic location of the roof, instructions for determining a footprint of the roof, instructions for determining predominant pitch of the roof, and/or instructions for determining an estimated roofing area based on the predominant pitch and the footprint of the roof.

Claims

1. A set of instructions stored on one or more computer readable medium for running on one or more computer systems, comprising:

instructions for identifying a geographic location of a roof;

instructions for determining contact information of one or more contractors within a region of interest of the geographic location of the roof; and

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instructions for determining a footprint of the roof;

instructions for determining predominant pitch of the roof;

instructions for determining an estimated roofing area based on the predominant pitch and the footprint of the roof.

2. The set of instructions of claim 1, further comprising instructions for providing a roof report, wherein the roof report includes one or more ortho images of the roof, one or more oblique images of the roof, the estimated roofing area and contact information of one or more contractor within the region of interest of the geographic location of the roof.

3. The set of instructions of claim 2, wherein the roof report includes contact information of the customer.

4. The set of instructions of claim 1, wherein the one or more computer readable medium comprises a first computer readable medium of a first host system and a second computer readable medium of a second host system.

5. The set of instructions of claim 1, wherein instructions for identifying the geographic location of the roof further comprises instructions for obtaining contact information of a customer.

6. The set of instructions of claim 1, wherein the one or more computer readable medium further comprises instructions for receiving customer input to validate geographic location of the roof.

7. The set of instructions of claim 6, wherein the geographic location includes coordinates and validation of the geographic location includes instructions for receiving customer input to alter one or more coordinates of the geographic location.

8. The set of instructions of claim 1, wherein instructions for identifying a geographic location of the roof includes identifying one or more edges of the roof in an image.

9. The set of instructions of claim 1, wherein instructions for determining a footprint of the roof further comprises:

instructions for identifying edges of the roof;

instructions for determining three-dimensional information of the edges including position, orientation and length using multiple oblique images from multiple cardinal directions; and

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instructions for determining, automatically, one or more line segments forming a portion of a footprint of the roof utilizing position and orientation of the edges.

10. The set of instructions of claim 1, wherein determining the predominant pitch includes determining a plurality of pitch values, the predominant pitch based on the plurality of pitch values.

11. The set of instructions of claim 10, wherein each pitch value is associated with an estimated percentage of roof area to provide an average pitch value.

12. The set of instructions of claim 1, further comprising:

instructions for providing the roof report to one or more contractors, the contractor located within the region of interest of the geographic location of the roof.

13. A system, comprising:

two or more host systems, each host system having one or more computer readable medium;

the first host system storing a set of instructions that when executed by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to;

identify a geographic location of a roof;

determine contact information of at least one contractor within a region of interest about the geographic location of the roof;

the second host system storing a set of instructions that when executed by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to;

determine a footprint of the roof;

determine a predominant pitch;

determine an estimated roofing area based on the predominant pitch and the footprint of the roof; and

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provide a roof report, wherein the roof report includes one or more ortho images of the roof, one or more oblique images of the roof, the estimated roofing area and contact information of one or more contractors within the region of interest.