Building structure discovery and display from various data artifacts at scene

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8990049-B2
Application number	US-77231010-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 3, 2010
Priority date	May 3, 2010
Publication date	Mar 24, 2015
Grant date	Mar 24, 2015

Abstract

An approach for developing information about a building of which little or no information is known at a time when firefighters need to enter the building. The approach may incorporate obtaining an image of the building from a publicly available resource. An outside boundary of the building may be determined from the image. The number of floors may be determined. A 3D floor plan may be generated from the boundary and the number of floors. Structural components may be added to the 3D floor plan, which are deduced from movements of firefighters, and the movements may be deduced from their locations. The locations may be transmitted by devices on the firefighters. Structural components of the building indicated by persons in the vicinity of the building may also be added to the 3D floor plan.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method implemented in a computing device for generating a quick approximation of a building structure and displaying the generated building structure on a display connected to the computing device, comprising:
downloading a publicly available resource image of a structure with the computing device;
creating a structure outline with the computing device from the downloaded resource image;
setting the number of floors of the structure outline from a pers…

Assignees

• Plocher Tom
• Chen Henry
• Honeywell Int Inc

Inventors

• Plocher Tom
• Chen Henry

Classifications

• G06F30/13 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/5004 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic