Patent ID: 11967041
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 10:
11. A machine-readable storage device having instructions for execution by a processor of a machine to cause the processor to perform operations to perform a method, the operations comprising:
obtaining at an edge device, data for raw image frames captured by a moving camera supported by a drone controlled to survey an area of interest, the data including geographic information for each raw image frame, the edge device performing:
indexing the raw image frames geographically based on the geographic information;
creating a graph from the multiple raw image frames, the graph comprising indexed image frames as vertices and edges connecting the vertices representing the image frames having overlapping image information, each edge including a weight representative of an amount of image overlap between connected vertices, wherein the weight is determined based on the geographic information;
skipping frames based on an amount of overlap threshold;
determining a remaining frame having an interesting feature;
using the graph to find additional raw image frames that have the interesting feature;
combining multiple of the additional raw image frames with the remaining frame to form a unique image frame; and
transmitting the unique image frame.