Method and Apparatus of Viewing Street View Data of a Real Estate Property

• US 20130191725A1
• 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:
  US13/791,951
• Publication Number:
  US 20130191725A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• 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 tangible computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon for execution by a processor to perform a method for providing a street level image associated with a first real estate property, the method comprising:

(a) providing a first request for captured image data associated with the first real estate property; and

(b) receiving captured image data associated with the first real estate property, wherein the captured image data includes an image captured by a camera oriented at street level to the first real estate property.

23. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, the method further comprising:

(c) receiving layer data associated with the first real estate property.

24. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, wherein the camera is a video camera, and wherein the captured image data includes multiple images captured by the video camera.

25. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, wherein the captured image data is captured by a plurality of cameras oriented at street level to the first real estate property, and wherein each of the plurality of cameras are approximately co-located.

26. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, wherein the providing of (a) further comprises:

(a1) displaying a web page received via the network in a browser running on the processing device;

(a2) entering information associated with the first real estate property into a data entry portion of the web page; and

(a3) transmitting the first request via the web page, wherein the request is based upon the entered information associated with the first real estate property.

27. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, wherein the receiving of (b) further comprises:

(b1) receiving captured image data received via the network by a browser running on the processing device.

28. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 23, wherein the receiving of (c) further comprises:

(c1) aligning the layer data to the captured image data received in (b);

(c2) superimposing the layer data onto the captured image data, thereby generating a composite image; and

(c3) displaying the composite image in the browser running on the processing device.

29. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 28, wherein the composite image comprises a click through link to a web page that is accessible via the network, and wherein the network is the Internet.

30. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 28, wherein the composite image comprises a click though link to contact information.

31. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 28, wherein the composite image comprises a click through link to a second composite image including different layer data.

32. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 28, wherein the composite image comprises a click through link to comparable real estate properties.

33. The tangible computer-readable storage medium 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, county property line data, record data, sale price data of the first real estate property, sale price data of comparable real estate properties, owner data, address data of the first real estate property, Multiple Listing Services (MLS) data, or a visual cue data indicating where the first real estate property is located within the captured image data.

34. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, wherein the captured image data associated with the first real estate property comprises an image that that is centered on a centroid of a parcel on which the first real estate property is located.

35. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, wherein the camera is attached to a vehicle traveling at street level relative to the first 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 first real estate property.

36. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, wherein the captured image data received in (b) includes a plurality of digital images of the first real estate property.

37. The tangible computer-readable storage medium 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.

38. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 28, wherein the captured image data includes three hundred and sixty degree street views about the plurality of cameras.

39. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, further comprising:

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

40. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22, further comprising:

(d) receiving aerial data associated with the first real estate property, wherein the aerial data includes a map of the first real estate property.

41. A system, comprising:

a first storage device that stores captured image data associated with the first real estate property; and

a processor, wherein the processor provides a first request for captured image data associated with the first real estate property;

wherein the processor receives captured image data associated with the first real estate property, and wherein the captured image data includes an image captured by a camera oriented at street level to the first real estate property.

42. The system of claim 41, further comprising:

a second storage device that stores layer data associated with the first real estate property.

43. The system of claim 41, wherein the camera is a video camera, and wherein the captured image data includes multiple images captured by the video camera.

44. The system of claim 41, further comprising:

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