Systems and methods for estimation of building floor area
AssigneeEagle View Technologies, Inc.
InventorChris Pershing
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Abstract
A system generates an estimated floor area measurement of a building based on the calculated estimated total roof area of the roof of the building. This is based on a correlation between the size of the building roof and the size of the building. Typically, the floor area of a single full floor of the building is roughly the size of the roof of the building if the roof were flat with no slope. This in effect is turning the roof into a floor to generate estimated floor area. With additional adjustments to area measurements to account for multiple floors, roof overhang, wall width, internal building features such as walls and staircases, and/or obstructed views of the building in the aerial image(s), etc., an even more accurate floor area estimation may be generated.
Claims16
A computing system for generating an estimated floor area measurement, the computing system comprising:
- one or more processor;
- a non-transitory memory;
- computer executable instructions for floor area measurement estimation stored on the non-transitory memory and that, when executed, cause the one or more processor to:
- receive a first image of a building having a roof, and a second image of the building from at least one image file database, the first image and the second image providing a different view of the roof of the building, the second image representing an oblique view of the building;
- generate, a three-dimensional computer model of the roof, by analyzing the first image and the second image;
- determine a total number of stories the building has using the second image of the building;
- determine, based at least in part on the determined total number of stories of the building and the three-dimensional computer model, an estimated floor area measurement of the building;
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- output a floor area measurement report having floor area data thereon, the floor area data including the estimated floor area measurement.
A floor area measurement report produced by a process comprising:
- receiving a first image of a building, and a second image of the building from at least one image file database, the first image and the second image being different views of the roof of the building, the second image being an oblique image;
- generating a computer model of a roof of the building based on the first image, and the second image;
- determining a total number of stories the building has using the second image of the building;
- generating, based at least in part on the generated computer model, and the total number of stories of the building, an estimated floor area measurement of the building;
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- electronically communicating the estimated floor area measurement.
A method for generating an estimated floor area measurement, comprising:
- receiving, with one or more computer processors, a first image of a building having a roof, and a second image of the building from at least one image file database, the first image and the second image providing a different view of the roof of the building, the second image representing an oblique view of the building;
- generating, with the one or more computer processors, a three-dimensional computer model of the roof, by analyzing the first image and the second image;
- determining, with the one or more computer processors, a total number of stories the building has using the second image of the building;
- determining, with the one or more computer processors, based at least in part on the determined total number of stories of the building and the three-dimensional computer model, an estimated floor area measurement of the building;
- and
- outputting, with the one or more computer processors, a floor area measurement report having floor area data thereon, the floor area data including the estimated floor area measurement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.