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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2014
Armageddon Energy, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Dmitry Dimov, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark Alan Goldman, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Armageddon Energy, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Some embodiments include a method of operating a computing device for performing solar shading analysis. The method can include: receiving a multimedia message from a mobile device, the multimedia message including a photograph of an image of sky reflected off of a reflective dome attached to an apparatus platform; identifying an unobstructed sky area and an obstructed sky area in the photograph; computing a shading percentage based on relative portions of the unobstructed sky area and the obstructed sky area; and generating a solar analysis report including the shading percentage, in response to receiving the multimedia message.