DIRECTED IMAGE CAPTURE

摘要

A process is provided for graphically guiding a user of a capture device (e.g., smartphone) to more accurately capture a series of images of a building. Images are captured as the picture taker moves around the building—taking a plurality (e.g., 4-16) of images from multiple angles and distances. Before capturing an image, a quality of the image may be determined to prevent low quality images from being captured or to provide instructions on how to improve the quality of the image capture. The series of captured images are uploaded to an image processing system to generate a 3D building model that is returned to the user. The returned 3D building model may incorporate scaled measurements of building architectural elements and may include a dataset of measurements for one or more architectural elements such as siding (e.g., aluminum, vinyl, wood, brick and/or paint), windows, doors or roofing.

主权项

1. A method of directed capture of building imagery, the method comprising:
displaying, on an image capture device, a selected graphical guide from a set of sequentially related graphical guides to assist with building image capture orientation; receiving an assessment of quality of a building image associated with the selected graphical guide; receiving, based on the selected graphical guide and the assessment of quality, acknowledgement of the building image being captured; repeating the displaying and receiving steps for a plurality of the selected graphical guides from the set of sequentially related graphical guides; and saving to memory the building images captured.