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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Urc Ventures, Inc., Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

David Boardman, Redmond, WA (US);

Charles Erignac, Kirkland, WA (US);

Srinivas Kapaganty, Suwanne, GA (US);

Jan-Michael Frahm, Chapel Hill, NC (US);

Ben Semerjian, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

URC Ventures Inc., Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2006.01); G06T 17/00 (2006.01); G01B 11/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 17/00 (2013.01); G01B 11/00 (2013.01); G06T 7/0065 (2013.01); G06T 7/602 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques are described for analyzing images acquired via mobile devices in various ways, including to estimate measurements for one or more attributes of one or more objects in the images. For example, the described techniques may be used to measure the volume of a stockpile of material or other large object, based on images acquired via a mobile device that is carried by a human user as he or she passes around some or all of the object. During the acquisition of a series of digital images of an object of interest, various types of user feedback may be provided to a human user operator of the mobile device, and particular images may be selected for further analysis in various manners. Furthermore, the calculation of object volume and/or other determined object information may include generating and manipulating a computer model or other representation of the object from selected images.


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