Patent ID: 9607243
Date: 2017-03-28
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06T

Claim:
1. A method for generating and providing time-lapsed sequences of images, the method comprising: identifying, by one or more computing devices, a set of images of a physical location; selecting, by the one or more computing devices, a representative image of the set of images; filtering, by the one or more computing devices, the set of images by comparing each image of the set of images to the representative image; aligning, by the one or more computing devices, the images of the filtered set of images to the representative image; generating, by the one or more computing devices, a time-lapsed sequence of images based on the aligned filtered set of images; determining, by the one or more computing devices, a first value for the time-lapsed sequence of images based on changes in pixel values from one image in the sequence to the next image in the sequence at corresponding pixel locations; and in response to a request from a user computing device for a time-lapsed image representation of the physical location, providing, using the one or more computing devices, the time-lapsed sequence of images when the first value exceeds a threshold.