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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
May. 26, 2016
State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, Bloomington, IL (US);
Brian N. Harvey, Bloomington, IL (US);
Nathan L. Tofte, Downs, IL (US);
Roger D. Schmidgall, Normal, IL (US);
Michael Jeffrey Aviles, Bloomington, IL (US);
Kyle Pott, Bloomington, IN (US);
Rosemarie Geier Grant, Ellsworth, IL (US);
Eric Haefli, Bloomington, IL (US);
Michael Shawn Jacob, Le Roy, IL (US);
STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Bloomington, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and system may assess the damage to infrastructure using aerial images captured from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a manned aerial vehicle (MAV) or from a satellite device. Specifically, an item of infrastructure may be identified for assessing damage. The UAV, MAV, or satellite device may then capture aerial images within an area which surrounds the identified infrastructure item. Subsequently, the aerial images may be analyzed to determine a condition and the extent and/or severity of the damage to the infrastructure item. Furthermore, the aerial images along with indications of the extent of the damage may be displayed on a computing device, where one indication of the severity of the damage surrounds another indication of the severity of the damage on the display.