US Patent:
20130051621, Feb 28, 2013
Inventors:
M. Dirk Robinson - Menlo Park CA, US
Mark Robertson - Cupertino CA, US
Hadar Isaac - Los Altos CA, US
Oliver Guinan - Palo Alto CA, US
Thomas Joseph Melendez - Mountain View CA, US
Daniel Berkenstock - Palo Alto CA, US
Julian Mann - Menlo Park CA, US
Assignee:
SKYBOX IMAGING, INC. - Mountain View CA
International Classification:
G06K 9/80
Abstract:
Described are systems, methods, computer programs, and user interfaces for image location, acquisition, analysis, and data correlation that uses human-in-the-loop processing, Human Intelligence Tasks (HIT), and/or or automated image processing. Results obtained using image analysis are correlated to non-spatial information useful for commerce and trade. For example, images of regions of interest of the earth are used to count items (e.g., cars in a store parking lot to predict store revenues), detect events (e.g., unloading of a container ship, or evaluating the completion of a construction project), or quantify items (e.g., the water level in a reservoir, the area of a farming plot).