Capture and use of building interior data from mobile devices

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored contents that cause one or more devices to perform automated operations, the automated operations including:

• recording, by at least one device of the one or more devices, data for a sequence of viewing locations within an interior of a structure, including recording visual data of the interior from each of the viewing locations, and including capturing linking information that includes acceleration data associated with movement between successive viewing locations in the sequence;
• creating, by at least one device of the one or more devices and from the recorded visual data for the viewing locations, panorama images that include a panorama image for each viewing location with views from the viewing location for each of multiple directions;
• generating, by at least one device of the one or more devices and based at least in part on the acceleration data of the captured linking information, relative positional information between at least some of the viewing locations;
• and
• providing, by at least one device of the one or more devices, information for display about the interior of the structure that includes the created panorama images and that includes links for the created panorama images based on the generated relative positional information.

A system, comprising:

• one or more hardware processors of one or more computing devices;
• and
• one or more memories with stored instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more hardware processors, cause the one or more computing devices to provide data representing an interior of a building, including:
• recording data for a sequence of recording locations associated with a building, including recording data representing an interior of the building from each of at least some of the recording locations, and capturing linking information that includes acceleration data associated with movement between successive recording locations in the sequence;
• creating a representation of each recording location using the recorded data from the recording location;
• generating, based at least in part on the acceleration data of the captured linking information, relative positional information between at least some of the recording locations;
• and
• providing information for presentation about the building that includes the created representations and that includes links for the created representations based on the generated relative positional information.

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• generating, by a mobile device carried by a user, video data representing multiple locations for a house, including:
• recording a first video of an interior of the house from a first viewing location within the house that is captured as the user performs at least a full rotation at the first viewing location;
• capturing, as the user carries the mobile device from the first viewing location to a second viewing location within the house, and via one or more inertial measurement units (IMUs) of the mobile device, linking information between the first and second viewing locations that includes motion data associated with movement of the mobile device, the motion data including acceleration data regarding the movement of the mobile device;
• and
• recording a second video of the interior of the house from the second viewing location that is captured as the user performs at least a full rotation at the second viewing location;
• creating, from the first and second videos, a first panorama image for the first viewing location with a 360-degree view at the first viewing location, and a second panorama image for the second viewing location with a 360-degree view at the second viewing location;
• automatically determining, by one or more computing devices and based at least in part on analyzing the motion data included in the captured linking information, relative positional information between the first and second viewing locations;
• and
• presenting, using the generated first and second panorama images, a display of the interior of the house on a client device to a second user that includes the created first and second panorama images, including displaying a first user-selectable link in the first panorama image in a direction of the second panorama image that is generated from the automatically determined relative positional information, and displaying a second user-selectable link in the second panorama image in a direction of the first panorama image that is generated from the automatically determined relative positional information, to allow the second user to change from a display of the first panorama image to a display of the second panorama image upon selection of the first user-selectable link, and to allow the second user to change from the display of the second panorama image to the display of the first panorama image upon selection of the second user-selectable link.