Three-dimensional interactive vehicle damage claim interface

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising:

• computer usable program code operable to model a vehicle using a three-dimensional vehicle model stored on a tangible storage medium;
• computer usable program code operable to define a plurality of vehicle panels for the vehicle model, each of the vehicle panels corresponding to a specific one of a plurality of different discrete vehicle regions of the vehicle model, each of the vehicle panels comprising a three dimensional plane for an exterior of the outer surface of the vehicle;
• computer usable program code operable to render, via at least one computer program product executing on hardware, an image of the vehicle within an interactive user interface, said image being generated from the three-dimensional vehicle model;
• computer usable program code operable to detect a presence of an interface pointer positioned over the image;
• computer usable program code operable to, responsive to the detecting, determine one of the vehicle panels corresponding to one of the discrete vehicle regions that the interface pointer is pointing at a time of the detecting;
• computer usable program code operable to show the determined one of the vehicle panels in a visually delineated manner within the user interface, wherein determined one of the vehicle panels is shown overlaying the corresponding one of the discrete regions of the image;
• computer usable program code operable to present damage fields within the user interface for defining damage to vehicle panels, wherein binding of the data fields are adjusted so that the damage fields refer to the determined one of the vehicle panels;
• computer usable program code operable to receive damage input entered into the damage fields, said damage input being specific to the determined one of the vehicle panels;
• computer usable program code operable to store the damage input within a damage panel object corresponding to the determined one of the vehicle panels;
• computer usable program code operable to detect a repositioning of the interface pointer so that it is no longer pointing to the determined one of the panels;
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• computer usable program code operable to, responsive to detecting the repositioning, hide the determined one of the vehicle panels within the user interface so that the user interface no longer shows the determined one of the vehicle panels as overlaying the corresponding one of the discrete regions of the image;
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• computer usable program code operable to, responsive to detecting the repositioning, adjust bindings of the damage fields so that the damage fields do not refer to the determined one of the vehicle panels or so that the damage fields are no longer presented within the user interface.

A method for capturing vehicle damage information in an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) comprising:

• rendering a three-dimensional vehicle scene within an interactive user interface, wherein said three-dimensional vehicle scene comprises an image of a vehicle generated from a three-dimensional vehicle model, wherein the image of the vehicle within the three-dimensional vehicle scene is rotatable by user selections of user selectable rotation controls of the interactive user interface;
• showing and hiding vehicle panels within the interactive user interface responsive to positionings of an interface pointer of the user interface relative to the image of the vehicle, wherein each vehicle panels comprises a three dimensional plane for an exterior of the outer surface of the vehicle, wherein each vehicle panel is shown in the interactive user interface as an overlay to a portion of the image of the vehicle that corresponds to the vehicle panel, wherein adjustments to the vehicle panels are made when the image of the vehicle is rotated by user selections of the rotation controls;
• while one of the vehicle panels is shown, presenting a plurality of user-configurable damage fields to describe damage to the vehicle within a region of the vehicle corresponding to the one vehicle panel that is shown;
• responsive to changes to values of the user configurable damage fields, determining damage to said vehicle;
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• visually presenting the determined damage in its corresponding location of the image within the interactive user interface.

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising:

• computer usable program code operable to render a three-dimensional vehicle scene within an interactive user interface, wherein said three-dimensional vehicle scene comprises an image of a vehicle generated from a three-dimensional vehicle model, wherein the image of the vehicle within the three-dimensional vehicle scene is rotatable by user selections of user selectable rotation controls of the interactive user interface;
• computer usable program code operable to show and hide vehicle panels within the interactive user interface responsive to positionings of an interface pointer of the user interface relative to the image of the vehicle, wherein each vehicle panels comprises a three dimensional plane for an exterior of the outer surface of the vehicle, wherein each vehicle panel is shown in the interactive user interface as an overlay to a portion of the image of the vehicle that corresponds to the vehicle panel, wherein adjustments to the vehicle panels are made when the image of the vehicle is rotated by user selections of the rotation controls;
• computer usable program code operable to, while one of the vehicle panels is shown, present a plurality of user-configurable damage fields to describe damage to the vehicle within a region of the vehicle corresponding to the one vehicle panel that is shown;
• computer usable program code operable to, responsive to changes to values of the user configurable damage fields, determine damage to said vehicle;
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• computer usable program code operable to visually present the determined damage in its corresponding location of the image within the interactive user interface.