Method of Receiving a List of Links to Street View Data of Real Estate Properties

• US 20130191295A1
• Filed: 03/09/2013
• Published: 07/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Visual Real Estate Incorporated (California Gold Corporation)
• Original Assignee: MV Patents LLC
• Inventors: Meadow, William D., Gordie, Randall A. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US13/791,947
• Publication Number:
  US 20130191295A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/313
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/587 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/787 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/10 Text processing natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30; processing or translation of natural language G06F40/40
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0278 Product appraisal
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0623 Item investigation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0629 for generating comparisons
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/16 Real estate
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 17/05 Geographic models
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 17/20 Finite element generation, e.g. wire-frame surface description, tesselation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/006 Mixed reality object pose determination, tracking or camera calibration for mixed reality G06T7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/4038 Image mosaicing, e.g. composing plane images from plane sub-images
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/698 : for achieving an enlarged field of view, e.g. panoramic image capture
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/28 : Mobile studios
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 : Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 : for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

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.

Claims

1-21. -21. (canceled)

22. A method, comprising:

(a) transmitting a first request indicating a first real estate property, wherein the first request is received across a network by a processing device including a memory and a processor;

(b) receiving a list of real estate properties; and

(c) receiving captured image data including an image captured by a camera oriented at street level to a second real estate property and layer data associated with the second real estate property.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

(d) transmitting a second request, wherein the second request indicates a second real estate property, wherein the second real estate property is included in the list of properties received in (b), and wherein the receiving of (c) occurs in response to the transmitting of (d).

24. The method of claim 22, wherein the second real estate property is comparable to the first real estate property.

25. The method of claim 22, wherein the receiving of (b), further includes:

(b1) receiving a click through link for each property included in the list of real estate properties, wherein each click through link initiates a request for captured image data.

26. The method of claim 22, wherein the list of properties includes data taken from the group consisting of:

sale data, area data, number of bedroom data, structure data, or lot size data.

27. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

(e) receiving a comparison report, wherein the comparison report is based upon the data associated with the real estate properties included in the list of real estate properties.

28. The method of claim 22, wherein the camera is a video camera, and wherein the captured image data includes multiple images captured by the video camera.

29. The method of claim 22, wherein the captured image data is captured by a plurality of cameras oriented at street level to the second real estate property, and wherein each of the plurality of cameras are approximately co-located.

30. The method of claim 22, wherein the first request of (a) is a page request made by a browser, and wherein the first request includes data indicating the first real estate property.

32. The method of claim 23, wherein the second request of (d) is a page request made by a browser, and wherein the network in (a) is the Internet.

33. The method of claim 23, wherein the transmitting of (c) is performed in response to receiving the second request in (d), wherein the layer data is superimposed on the captured image data, thereby generating a composite image, and wherein the composite image is displayed to a user.

34. The method of claim 22, wherein the layer data includes information taken from the group consisting of:

geo-coded data, vector data, property county parcel data, landmark data, or county property line data.

35. The method of claim 22, wherein the captured image data associated with the second real estate property comprises an image that that is centered on a centroid of a parcel on which the second real estate property is located.

36. The method of claim 22, wherein the layer data includes information taken from the group consisting of:

record data, sale price data of the second real estate property, sale price data of comparable real estate properties, owner data, address data of second real estate property, Multiple Listing Services (MLS) data, or a visual cue data indicating where the second real estate property is located within the captured image data.

37. The method of claim 22, wherein the camera is attached to a vehicle traveling at street level relative to the second real estate property, and wherein the captured image data comprises a plurality of images captured from discrete points traversed by the vehicle while the vehicle is in proximity to the second real estate property.

38. The method of claim 22, wherein the captured image data transmitted in (d) includes a plurality of images of the second real estate property.

39. The method of claim 22, wherein the captured image data is captured via a plurality of cameras, wherein each of the plurality of cameras are co-located, and wherein each of the plurality of cameras are oriented in a unique direction.

40. The method of claim 39, wherein the captured image data includes three hundred and sixty degree street views about the plurality of cameras.

41. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

(d) transmitting aerial data associated with the second real estate property, wherein the aerial data includes an overhead photo of the second real estate property.

31. The method of claim 31, wherein the transmitting of (b) is performed in response to receiving the first request in (a), wherein the list of real estate properties is displayed to a user, wherein the click through link is superimposed on the map and is visible to the user, and wherein the second real estate property is indicated on the map.