BUILDING STRUCTURE DISCOVERY AND DISPLAY FROM VARIOUS DATA ARTIFACTS AT SCENE
First Claim
1. An approach for developing information about a building of which little or no information is known at the time when firefighters need to enter the building, comprising:
- obtaining an image of a building from a publicly available resource;
determining an outside boundary of the building in the image;
determining a number of floors of the building;
generating a 3D floor plan of the building from the boundary and number of floors of the building; and
adding structure components of the building to the 3D floor plan during the time that the firefighters are at the building.
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Abstract
An approach for developing information about a building of which little or no information is known at a time when firefighters need to enter the building. The approach may incorporate obtaining an image of the building from a publicly available resource. An outside boundary of the building may be determined from the image. The number of floors may be determined. A 3D floor plan may be generated from the boundary and the number of floors. Structural components may be added to the 3D floor plan, which are deduced from movements of firefighters, and the movements may be deduced from their locations. The locations may be transmitted by devices on the firefighters. Structural components of the building indicated by persons in the vicinity of the building may also be added to the 3D floor plan.
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1. An approach for developing information about a building of which little or no information is known at the time when firefighters need to enter the building, comprising:
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obtaining an image of a building from a publicly available resource; determining an outside boundary of the building in the image; determining a number of floors of the building; generating a 3D floor plan of the building from the boundary and number of floors of the building; and adding structure components of the building to the 3D floor plan during the time that the firefighters are at the building. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A system for a nearly immediate rendering of a building structure for conducting emergency operations in the structure, comprising:
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a module for downloading an image of a site of a building structure from a publicly available resource; a module for obtaining an outline of the building structure from the image and indicating a number of floors in the structure; and a module for generating a 3D wireframe image of the building structure. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for generating a quick approximation of a building structure, comprising:
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downloading a publicly available resource image of a structure; determining a number of floors in the structure; taking a structure outline from the image and the number of floors from a perspective view from a publicly available resource image or other source; generating a 3D floor plan of the structure from the structure outline and the number of floors; and updating the 3D floor plan to show components of the structure as they are discovered. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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