Patent Document ID: 9489696
Application ID: 14966226
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system comprising: a controllable inspection vehicle including an image sensor, the controllable inspection vehicle controlled via a transportation module configured to cause the controllable inspection vehicle to travel around a geographic area; and one or more computing devices communicatively coupled to the controllable inspection vehicle, the one or more computing devices configured to: (a) receive from the controllable inspection vehicle one or more captured images of a building, the one or more captured images captured, via the image sensor, from one or more locations traversed by the controllable inspection vehicle; (b) automatically perform an analysis of the one or more captured images, the analysis of the one or more captured images including: (i) an image comparison between the one or more captured images and one or more reference images; (ii) a calculation of damage to the building that corresponds to damage to parts of the building to be repaired or replaced, said calculation based on results of the image comparison; and (iii) an estimate of a remedial financial cost to remedy the damage calculated from the image comparison; and (c) store to a memory the estimated remedial financial cost.