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US 11,763,556 B1Granted
Systems and methods for assessing landscape condition
AssigneeUnited Services Automobile Association (USAA)
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.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- one or more processors;
- a tangible, non-transitory, computer readable medium, comprising instructions that cause the one or more processor to:
- receive an indication indicative of a potential source of damage, associated with a natural disaster, to a property in a geographic area;
- instruct an imaging device to obtain image data of the property in the geographic area at a first time point;
- receive the image data of the property;
- determine a previously identified risk-mitigating landscape feature is absent from the property based on the image data;
- generate a landscape condition output based on the previously identified risk-mitigating landscape feature being absent from the property;
- and
- provide the landscape condition output to a computing device associated with a property owner of property.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving, via one or more processors, an indication indicative of a potential source of damage, associated with a natural disaster, to a property in a geographic area;
- instructing, via the one or more processors, a controller of an unmanned aerial vehicle to obtain image data of the property via a flight path in the geographic area at a first time point;
- receiving, via the one or more processors, the image data of the property from the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- determining, via the one or more processors, a previously identified risk-mitigating landscape feature is absent from a location within the property;
- generating, via the one or more processors, a landscape condition output based on the previously identified risk-mitigating landscape feature being absent;
- and
- transmitting, via the processor, the landscape condition output to one or more damage mitigation devices causing the one or more damage mitigation devices to activate based on the landscape condition output.
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A system, comprising:
- one or more unmanned aerial vehicles;
- one or more damage mitigation devices;
- and
- a control system communicatively coupled to the one or more unmanned aerial vehicles and the one or more damage mitigation devices, wherein the control system is configured to:
- receive an indication indicative of a potential source of damage, associated with a wildfire, to a property in a geographic area;
- instruct a controller of at least one unmanned aerial vehicle of the one or more unmanned aerial vehicles to obtain image data of the property via a flight path in the geographic area based on the indication;
- receive the image data of the property from the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- determine a previously identified risk-mitigating landscape feature is absent from the property;
- generate a landscape condition output based on the previously identified risk-mitigating landscape feature being absent from the property;
- and
- instruct the one or more damage mitigation devices to activate and block damage to the property based on the landscape condition output.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.