74 patents
Utility
Third party email parsing
2 Jan 24
A system for third party email parsing comprises an input interface and a processor.
Alexander L. Lange, Rebekah T. Boydston
Filed: 15 Feb 23
Utility
Automatic analysis of regional housing markets based on the appreciation or depreciation of individual homes
2 Jan 24
A facility for determining a housing index value for a subject geographic region for a subject period in time is described.
Stanley B. Humphries, Peter Gross, Svenja Gudell, Krishna Rao
Filed: 28 May 19
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Time on market and likelihood of sale prediction
2 Jan 24
A facility for estimating the value of a distinguished home, estimating the length of time a home or other property will be on the market at a listing price, and predicting the likelihood of sale of a home at a listing price is described.
Stanley B. Humphries, Dong Xiang, Yeng Bun, Krishna Rao, Elisa Sheng, Chris Sipola
Filed: 7 Sep 17
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Valuation of homes using geographic regions of varying granularity
2 Jan 24
A facility for estimating a subject home's value is described.
Nima Shahbazi, Mohamed Chahhou, Jordan Meyer, Shize Su
Filed: 28 Jun 19
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Automated exchange and use of attribute information between building images of multiple types
12 Dec 23
Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations to generate mapping information of a defined area via analysis of visual data of images, including by using attribute information exchanged between paired or otherwise grouped images of multiple types to generate enhanced images, and for using the generated mapping information in further automated manners, including to use the generated mapping information for automated navigation and/or to display or otherwise present the generated mapping information.
Naji Khosravan, Sing Bing Kang, Ivaylo Boyadzhiev
Filed: 22 Sep 21
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Automated direction of capturing in-room information for use in usability assessment of buildings
5 Dec 23
Techniques are described for automated operations related to analyzing visual data from images captured in rooms of a building and optionally additional captured data about the rooms to assess room layout and other usability information for the building's rooms and optionally for the overall building, and to subsequently using the assessed usability information in one or more further automated manners, such as to improve navigation of the building.
Lambert E. Wixson, Christopher Buehler
Filed: 25 Feb 21
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Automated building identification using floor plans and acquired building images
28 Nov 23
Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations for determining matching buildings and using corresponding information in further automated manners, such as by determining buildings having similarities to other indicated buildings based at least in part on building floor plans and/or other attributes, and by automatically generating descriptions of the similarities.
Naji Khosravan, Lichen Wang, Sing Bing Kang
Filed: 13 Jul 22
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Providing simulated lighting information for building models
21 Nov 23
Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations related to, with respect to a computer model of a house or other building's interior, generating and displaying simulated lighting information in the model based on sunlight or other external light that is estimated to enter the building and be visible in particular rooms of the interior under specified conditions, such as using ambient occlusion and light transport matrix calculations.
Joshuah Vincent, Pierre Moulon, Ivaylo Boyadzhiev, Joshua David Maruska
Filed: 5 Oct 21
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Automated tools for generating building mapping information
24 Oct 23
Techniques are described for computing devices to perform automated operations related to using images acquired in a building as part of generating a floor plan for the building, in some cases without using depth information from depth-sensing equipment about distances from the images' acquisition locations to objects in the surrounding building, and for subsequent use in further automated manners, such as controlling navigation of mobile devices and/or for display to end users in a corresponding GUI (graphical user interface).
Yuguang Li, Pierre Moulon, Lambert E. Wixson, Christopher Buehler, Ivaylo Boyadzhiev
Filed: 20 Jan 23
Utility
Automated usability assessment of buildings using visual data of captured in-room images
17 Oct 23
Techniques are described for automated operations related to analyzing visual data from images captured in rooms of a building and optionally additional captured data about the rooms to assess room layout and other usability information for the building's rooms and optionally for the overall building, and to subsequently using the assessed usability information in one or more further automated manners, such as to improve navigation of the building.
Viktoriya Stoeva, Sing Bing Kang, Naji Khosravan, Lambert E. Wixson
Filed: 25 Feb 21
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Home valuation using identified exterior and interior features systems and methods
10 Oct 23
A valuation system to identify interior features of a property, identify exterior features related to interior features using aerial images, and to generate property valuations based on the identified features is provided.
Naji Khosravan, Sing Bing Kang, Ivaylo Boyadzhiev, Pierre Moulon, Yujie Li
Filed: 18 Nov 20
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Automatically determining a current value for a home
26 Sep 23
A facility for valuing a distinguished home located in a distinguished geographic area is described.
Stanley B. Humphries, Dong Xiang, Kyusik Chung, Jonathan Lee Burstein
Filed: 22 Dec 21
Utility
Valuation system
15 Aug 23
Estimating a valuation of a target property is disclosed, including receiving user-generated data regarding one or more properties associated with the target property, processing the user-provided data using one or more data models that are configured to process the user-provided data, and combining the output of the one or more data models to obtain an estimated valuation of the target property.
Pete Flint, Jesper Sparre Andersen, Sami Inkinen
Filed: 21 Jun 19
Utility
Guided real estate search using contextual refinement
27 Jun 23
A guided search system for suggesting and arranging filter criteria within a user interface for presentation to a user to help guide the user's search for listings is disclosed.
Farah Abdallah, Andrei Lopatenko, Tarun Agarwal, Arun Balagopalan, Jackson R. Gibbons
Filed: 18 Sep 20
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Automated determination of acquisition locations of acquired building images based on determined surrounding room data
9 May 23
Techniques are described for computing devices to perform automated operations to determine the acquisition locations of images, such as within a building interior based on automatically determined shapes of rooms of the building, and for using the determined image acquisition location information in further automated manners.
Yuguang Li, Will A. Hutchcroft, Naji Khosravan, Ivaylo Boyadzhiev
Filed: 7 Oct 22
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Automated control of image acquisition via use of mobile device user interface
25 Apr 23
Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations to control acquisition of images in a defined area, including obtaining and using data from one or more hardware sensors on a mobile device that is acquiring the images, analyzing the sensor data (e.g., in a real-time manner) to determine the geometric orientation of the mobile device in three-dimensional (3D) space, and using that determined orientation to control the acquisition of further images by the mobile device.
Mitchell David Dawson, Li Guan, Andrew H. Otwell, Dun-Yu Hsiao
Filed: 21 Aug 20
Utility
Capture, analysis and use of building data from mobile devices
18 Apr 23
Techniques are described for automated operations involving capturing and analyzing information from an interior of a house, building or other structure, for use in generating and providing a representation of that interior.
Ivaylo Boyadzhiev, Alex Colburn, Li Guan, Qi Shan
Filed: 5 Jul 21
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Automated determination of image acquisition locations in building interiors using multiple data capture devices
18 Apr 23
Techniques are described for using multiple devices to automatically determine the acquisition location of an image from a camera device, such as within a building interior and by using data from the multiple devices (e.g., visual data from the camera device's image, and additional data captured by a separate mobile computing device in the same area as the camera device), and for subsequently using determined image acquisition location information in one or more further automated manners.
Sean P. Cier, Sing Bing Kang, Mitchell David Dawson, Pierre Moulon
Filed: 11 Jan 22
Utility
Automated control of image acquisition via use of mobile device interface
11 Apr 23
Techniques are described for using computing devices to perform automated operations to control acquisition of images in a defined area, including obtaining and using data from one or more hardware sensors on a mobile device that is acquiring the images, analyzing the sensor data (e.g., in a real-time manner) to determine the geometric orientation of the mobile device in three-dimensional (3D) space, and using that determined orientation to control the acquisition of further images by the mobile device.
Mitchell David Dawson, Li Guan, Andrew H. Otwell, Dun-Yu Hsiao
Filed: 6 Jul 20
Utility
Electronic content sharing
4 Apr 23
Systems and methods are disclosed for sharing electronic content between a plurality of users.
Gregory Austin Allison, Justin Y. Hu, Matthew Allan Vorst
Filed: 13 Jan 22