Patent Document ID: 9286720
Application ID: 12544298
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for providing a combined video stream with geospatial information, comprising: a camera providing a video stream showing a view of the camera and camera position information; a geospatial data repository; a computer including: locative video software that receives video frames of the video stream and the camera position information from the camera; and a visualization tool that instantiates a virtual camera and a virtual visualization space, wherein the visualization tool receives the camera position information from the locative video software, retrieves geospatial data from the geospatial data repository, and uses the camera position information and the geospatial data to position the virtual camera within the virtual visualization space by rendering and mathematically transforming, without ortho-rectifying, the geospatial data to align a view of the virtual camera with the camera view such that the virtual camera view mimics the camera view; wherein the locative video software periodically requests and receives geospatial snapshots of the virtual camera view from the visualization tool, and combines the video frames and the geospatial snapshots to generate a combined video stream, the geospatial snapshots provide captured virtual camera view images corresponding to the geospatial data retrieved from the geospatial data repository, the combined video stream including information associated with one or more geospatial features in the video frames and nearby landmarks, and wherein the associated information is rendered in geospatial alignment with the one or more geospatial features.