IP Library Granted Patent US 10,311,089
Granted Patent B2
US 10,311,089 · App. 15/797,234 · Granted Jun 4, 2019

System and method for early access to captured images

Inventors: Frank D. Giuffrida (Honeoye Falls, NY); Chad Skolny (Pittsford, NY); Steve Adams (Rush, NY); Robert Gray (Canandiagua, NY); Chris Schnaufer (Rochester, NY)
Assignee: Pictometry International Corp.
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Patent No.
US 10,311,089
App. No.
15/797,234
Granted
Jun 4, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for early access to captured images including receiving a request for at least one image of a geographic area from a client application of an operator user device; querying records within a geospatial database to locate one or more records of images accessible by the geospatial database and depicting at least a portion of the geographic area; reading information within the one or more records depicting at least a portion of the geographic area to determine a status of an image within the one or more records, the status of the image indicating that the image is an in process captured image in which the image has not been fully processed; and presenting at least a portion of the image to the client application of the operator user device with a status indicator indicating the stage in processing of the geographic area.

Claims (18)

1. A computer system comprising one or more non-transitory computer readable mediums storing computer executable code that when executed by one or more servers of the computer system cause the one or more servers to:

receive a request for at least one image of a geographic area from a client application of an operator user device;

query records within a geospatial database to locate one or more records of images accessible by the geospatial database and depicting at least a portion of the geographic area;

read information within the one or more records depicting at least a portion of the geographic area to determine a status of an image within the one or more records, the status of the image indicating that the image is an in-process captured-image in which the image has not been fully processed; and

present at least a portion of the image to the client application of the operator user device with a status indicator indicating a stage in processing of the image of the geographic area.

2. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the computer executable code is configured to cause the one or more servers to present the status indicator geospatially.

3. The computer system of claim 2 , wherein the geospatial presentation of the status indicator is depicted as a boundary overlaid on a geospatial map or display.

4. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the status indicator of the image includes a status of at least one of color-balancing the image, quality control processing of the image, geo-referencing the image, whether processing of the image has begun.

5. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the image is a first image, and wherein the computer executable code that when executed by one or more servers of the computer system cause the one or more servers to present at least a portion of a second image to the client application of the operator user device with a status indicator indicating that the image is fully processed.

6. A method, comprising:

receiving, with a computer system, a request for at least one image of a geographic area from a client application of an operator user device;

querying, with the computer system, records within a geospatial database to locate one or more records of images accessible by the geospatial database and depicting at least a portion of the geographic area;

reading, with the computer system, information within the one or more records depicting at least a portion of the geographic area to determine a status of an image within the one or more records, the status of the image indicating that the image is an in-process captured image in which the image has not been fully processed; and

presenting, with the computer system, at least a portion of the image to the client application of the operator user device with a status indicator indicating a stage in processing of the image of the geographic area.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising presenting the status indicator geospatially.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the geospatial presentation of the status indicator is depicted as a boundary overlaid on a geospatial map or display.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the status indicator of the image includes a status of at least one of color-balancing the image, quality control processing of the image, geo-referencing the image, whether processing of the image has begun.

10. The method of claim 6 , wherein the image is a first image, and further comprising presenting at least a portion of a second image to the client application of the operator user device with a status indicator indicating that the image is fully processed.

Assignments (7)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Apr 14, 2025
From: HPS INVESTMENT PARTNERS, LLC
To: PICTOMETRY INTERNATIONAL CORP.
Reel/Frame 070828/0266 →
RELEASE OF FIRST LIEN SECURITY INTEREST IN PATENTS Recorded Apr 9, 2025
From: MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
To: PICTOMETRY INTERNATIONAL CORP.; EAGLE VIEW TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; OMNIEARTH, INC.
Reel/Frame 070786/0022 →
FIRST LIEN SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Mar 28, 2025
From: EAGLE VIEW TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; PICTOMETRY INTERNATIONAL CORP.
To: MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
Reel/Frame 070671/0078 →
FIRST LIEN PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT Recorded Oct 16, 2019
From: PICTOMETRY INTERNATIONAL CORP.
To: MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 050741/0128 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 16, 2018
From: GIUFFRIDA, FRANK D.; SKOLNY, CHAD; ADAMS, STEVE; GRAY, ROBERT; SCHNAUFER, CHAD
To: PICTOMETRY INTERNATIONAL CORP.
Reel/Frame 047185/0368 →
FIRST LIEN PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Aug 23, 2018
From: PICTOMETRY INTERNATIONAL CORP.
To: MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 046919/0065 →
SECOND LIEN PATENT SECURITY AGREEMENT Recorded Aug 14, 2018
From: PICTOMETRY INTERNATIONAL CORP.
To: HPS INVESTMENT PARTNERS, LLC,
Reel/Frame 046823/0755 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 15053888 · Feb 25, 2016
Continuation 13833352 · Mar 15, 2013
Related Publication 20180060352A1 · Mar 1, 2018