US 11,729,495 B2
Directed image capture
William Castillo, Belmont, CA (US); Adam J. Altman, San Francisco, CA (US); Ioannis Pavlidis, Redwood City, CA (US); Sarthak Sahu, San Francisco, CA (US); and Manish Upendran, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Hover Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Hover Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/352,334.
Application 17/352,334 is a continuation of application No. 16/864,115, filed on Apr. 30, 2020, granted, now 11,070,720.
Application 16/864,115 is a continuation of application No. 16/040,663, filed on Jul. 20, 2018, granted, now 10,681,264, issued on Jun. 9, 2020.
Application 16/040,663 is a continuation of application No. 15/348,038, filed on Nov. 10, 2016, granted, now 10,038,838, issued on Jul. 31, 2018.
Application 15/348,038 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/166,587, filed on May 27, 2016, granted, now 9,934,608, issued on Apr. 3, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/253,441, filed on Nov. 10, 2015.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/168,460, filed on May 29, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0314484 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 23/60 (2023.01); H04N 1/21 (2006.01); H04N 5/265 (2006.01); H04N 13/221 (2018.01); H04N 23/63 (2023.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); H04N 13/00 (2018.01)
CPC H04N 23/64 (2023.01) [G06T 17/00 (2013.01); H04N 1/2104 (2013.01); H04N 5/265 (2013.01); H04N 13/221 (2018.05); H04N 23/63 (2023.01); H04N 23/633 (2023.01); H04N 2013/0081 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of directed capture of building imagery, the method comprising:
displaying, on an image capture device display, a building of interest subject within a first image frame at a first camera position;
overlaying a graphical guide associated with the building of interest subject within the first image frame at the first camera position;
receiving a first quality assessment of the first image frame with respect to the graphical guide; and
capturing a first image of the building of interest subject based on the quality assessment.