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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2011
David Miller, Annadale, VA (US);
Pawel Mikolaj Bedynski, Oxfordshire, GB;
Mainak Mazumdar, Forest Hills, NY (US);
Ludo Daemen, Brussels, BE;
David Miller, Annadale, VA (US);
Pawel Mikolaj Bedynski, Oxfordshire, GB;
Mainak Mazumdar, Forest Hills, NY (US);
Ludo Daemen, Brussels, BE;
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to measure geographical features using an image of a geographical location are disclosed. An example method includes dividing, with a processor, an image of a geographic area of interest into a plurality of geographical zones, the geographical zones being representative of different geographical areas having approximately equal physical areas, measuring, with the processor, a geographical feature represented in the image for corresponding ones of the plurality of geographical zones, storing descriptions for the geographical zones in a computer memory, and storing values representative of the geographical feature of the geographical zones.