| CPC G06V 10/267 (2022.01) [G06V 10/74 (2022.01)] | 13 Claims |
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1. A method, comprising:
receiving input of a geographical area of interest on a graphical user interface;
retrieving home addresses within the geographical area of interest from a storage of home addresses;
retrieving and storing raw street level images of houses for each of the retrieved addresses;
cropping the raw street level images to remove portions of adjacent houses in the images, wherein cropping the raw street level images comprises:
identifying corners of the house in the street level image by:
determining the angular extent of the house from the nearest point on the street from the aerial outline; and
translating distance and angles from the determining step to pixel values in the street level image; and
calculating portions of the street level image in excess of pixel values representing the house; and
cropping the portions from the street level image, thereby removing at least a portion of neighboring houses from the image; and
storing the cropped images.
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