US 11,238,652 B2 · Presenting integrated building information using building models

Abstract

Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations related to providing visual information of multiple types in an integrated manner about a building or other defined area. The techniques may include generating and presenting a GUI (graphical user interface) on a client device that includes a computer model of the building's interior with one or more first types of information (e.g., in a first pane of the GUI), and simultaneously presenting other types of related information about the building interior (e.g., in additional separate GUI pane(s)) that is coordinated with the first type(s) of information being currently displayed. The computer model may be a 3D (three-dimensional) or 2.5D representation generated after the house is built and showing the actual house's interior (e.g., walls, furniture, etc.), and may be displayed to a user of a client computing device in a displayed GUI with various user-selectable controls.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

selecting, by one or more computing systems, multiple types of information about an indicated building to simultaneously show to a user in a displayed graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the multiple types of information include at least one of an image or a video showing one or more locations associated with the indicated building, and include at least a portion of a floor map of the indicated building that shows at least two-dimensional structural information for at least some of the indicated building and that indicates the one or more locations for the at least one of the image or the video;
receiving, by the one or more computing systems, one or more indications of one or more additional types of information to visually overlay on the at least portion of the floor map that are based at least in part on data acquired at the indicated building;
and
presenting, by the one or more computing systems, and via the displayed GUI, the multiple types of information simultaneously in the displayed GUI, including to display the least one of the image or the video and to display the at least portion of the floor map, and visually overlaying the one or more additional types of information on the displayed at least portion of the floor map.

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A system comprising:

one or more hardware processors of one or more computing systems;
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 systems to perform automated operations including at least:
selecting multiple types of information about a location associated with an indicated building to show together to a user in a displayed graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the multiple types of information include at least a portion of a floor map of the indicated building that shows structural information for at least some of the indicated building and that indicates the location, and include a visual display of data captured at the location;
receiving one or more indications of one or more additional types of information about the indicated building to visually overlay on information displayed in the GUI;
and
providing the multiple types of information and the one or more additional types of information for display together in the displayed GUI, including to display the at least portion of the floor map and to provide the visual display of the captured data, and to visually overlay the one or more additional types of information in the displayed GUI on at least one of the displayed at least portion of the floor map or the visual display of the captured data.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored contents that cause one or more computing systems to perform automated operations including at least:

selecting, by the one or more computing systems, multiple types of information about a location associated with an indicated building to show together to a user in a displayed graphical user interface (GUI), wherein the location includes one of multiple rooms of the indicated building, and wherein the multiple types of information include at least a portion of a floor map of the indicated building that shows three-dimensional structural information for the one room including walls and windows and doorways, and further include a visual display based on data captured at the location;
and
providing, by the one or more computing systems, the multiple types of information for display together in the displayed GUI, including to cause a display of the at least portion of the floor map that shows the three-dimensional structural information and that does not include visual indications of contents within an interior of the one room that are not part of its structure, and to provide the visual display of the captured data.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Presenting integrated building information using building models

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Abstract

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