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US 11,410,416 B1Granted
Systems and methods for assessing landscape condition
AssigneeUnited Services Automobile Association
InventorsYevgeniy Viatcheslavovich Khmelev, Oscar Guerra, Jeffrey Neal Pollack, Janelle Denice Dziuk, Ashley Raine Philbrick, Ryan Thomas Russell, David Patrick Dixon
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Abstract
A technique for assessing a landscape condition of a property is provided that determines landscape condition for an individual property or properties of interest using image data from one or more unmanned aerial vehicles. Based on the image data, a control system may generate a landscape condition output, such as an alert for a property owner or control signals for damage mitigation devices.
Claims5
A method, comprising:
- receiving, via a processor, a weather alert associated with a natural disaster for a geographic area;
- determining, via the processor, the geographic area of the weather alert is associated with a property;
- instructing, via the processor, a controller of an unmanned aerial vehicle to obtain first image data of the property via a flight path in the geographic area at a first time point in response to determining the geographic area is associated with the property;
- receiving, via the processor, the image data of the property from the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- identifying, via the processor, a risk-mitigating landscape feature of the property based on the image data;
- determining, via the processor, a characteristic of the risk-mitigating landscape feature, wherein the characteristic of the risk-mitigating landscape feature is that a previously identified risk-mitigating landscape feature is absent from the property;
- generating, via the processor, a landscape condition output based on the characteristic of the risk-mitigating landscape feature;
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- transmitting, via the processor, the landscape condition output to a garage door controller of the property wherein, upon receipt of the landscape condition output, the garage door operates to close an open garage door.
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