Method and Apparatus of Receiving a List of Links to Street View Data of Real Estate Properties
Video drive-by data provides a street level view of a neighborhood surrounding a selected geographic location. A video and data server farm incorporates a video storage server that stores video image files containing video drive-by data corresponding to a geographic location, a database server that processes a data query received from a user over the Internet corresponding to a geographic location of interest, and an image processing server. In operation, the database server identifies video image files stored in the video storage server that correspond to the geographic location of interest contained in the data query and transfers the video image files over a pre-processing network to the image processing server. The image processing server converts the video drive-by data to post-processed video data corresponding to a desired image format and transfers the post-processed video data via a post-processing network to the Internet in response to the query.
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22 . A tangible computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon for execution by a processor to perform a method for providing a street level image associated with a first real estate property, the method comprising:
(a) providing a first request indicating a first real estate property, wherein the first request is received across a network by a processing device including a memory and a processor;
(b) receiving a list of real estate properties;
(c) providing a second request, wherein the second request indicates a second real estate property, and wherein the second real estate property is included in the list of properties received in (b); and
(d) receiving captured image data including an image captured by a camera oriented at street level to the second real estate property and layer data associated with the second real estate property.
23 . The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the second real estate property is comparable to the first real estate property.
24 . The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the receiving of (b), further includes:
(b1) receiving a click through link for each property included in the list of real estate properties, wherein each click through link initiates a request for captured image data.
25 . The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the list of properties includes data taken from the group consisting of: sale data, area data, number of bedroom data, structure data, or lot size data.
26 . The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , the method further comprising:
(e) receiving a comparison report, wherein the comparison report is based upon the data associated with the real estate properties included in the list of real estate properties.
27 . The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the camera is a video camera, and wherein the captured image data includes multiple images captured by the video camera.
28 . The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the first request of (a) is a page request made by a browser, wherein the first request includes data indicating the first real estate property, wherein the second request of (c) is a page request made by the browser, and wherein the network in (a) is the Internet.
29 . The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the providing of (b) is performed in response to receiving the first request in (a), wherein the list of real estate properties is displayed to a user, wherein the click through link is superimposed on the map and is visible to the user, and wherein the second real estate property is indicated on the map.
30 . The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the providing of (d) is performed in response to receiving the second request in (c), wherein the layer data is superimposed on the captured image data, thereby generating a composite image, and wherein the composite image is displayed to a user.
31 . The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the layer data includes information taken from the group consisting of: geo-coded data, vector data, property county parcel data, landmark data, county property line data, record data, sale price data of the second real estate property, sale price data of comparable real estate properties, owner data, address data of second real estate property, Multiple Listing Services (MLS) data, or a visual cue data indicating where the second real estate property is located within the captured image data.
32 . The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein captured image data associated with the second real estate property comprises an image that that is centered on a centroid of a parcel on which the second real estate property is located.
33 . The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the layer data includes property lines of the second real estate property.
34 . The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the camera is attached to a vehicle traveling at street level relative to the second real estate property, and wherein the captured image data comprises a plurality of images captured from discrete points traversed by the vehicle while the vehicle is in proximity to the second real estate property.
35 . The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , wherein the captured image data provided in (d) includes a plurality of images of the second real estate property.
36 . The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 22 , the method further comprising:
(e) providing aerial data associated with the second real estate property, wherein the aerial data includes an overhead photo of the second real estate property.
37 . A system, comprising:
a first storage device that stores captured image data associated with a first and second real estate property; and
a processor, wherein the processor receives a first request indicating the first real estate property, wherein the processor provides user interface data, and wherein the user interface data comprises:
overhead map data; and
a link that when clicked initiates a second request for captured image data including an image captured by a camera oriented at street level to the second real estate property; wherein the second real estate property is comparable to the first real estate property.
38 . The system of claim 37 , wherein the processor receives the second request and in response provides the captured image data and layer data associated with the second real estate property.
39 . The system of claim 37 , further comprising:
a second storage device that stores the layer data associated with the second real estate property.
40 . The system of claim 37 , wherein the camera is a video camera, and wherein the captured image data includes multiple images captured by the video camera.
41 . The system of claim 37 , further comprising:
a plurality of cameras, wherein the captured image data is captured by the plurality of cameras oriented at street level to the first real estate property, and wherein each of the plurality of cameras are approximately co-located.