Patent Document ID: 9953459
Application ID: 14303126
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of updating building model textures comprising: receiving one or more collected images, the one or more collected images including one or more facades of a building; processing regions of the one or more collected images to identify architectural features of a selected façade within the regions as metadata associated with a respective one of the one or more collected images; comparing at least one of the one or more collected images to a plurality of previously stored geospatial images, the comparing including an analysis of the identified architectural features metadata; ranking the comparing of the respective one of the one or more collected images and the plurality of previously stored geospatial images, the ranking producing a ranked list of similar images to the respective one of the one or more collected images based at least on the analysis of the metadata; creating a pixel-to-pixel correlation between the respective one of the one or more collected images and a highest ranked of the plurality of previously stored geospatial images; storing collected pixel-to-pixel correlated images in a database with metadata data derived during both the processing as well as with metadata associated with the highest ranked of the plurality of previously stored geospatial images; and when the pixel-to-pixel correlation indicates differences between the respective one of the one or more collected images and the highest ranked of the plurality of previously stored geospatial images, updating the building model textures by retexturing at least one of the facades of a building model with the pixel-to-pixel correlated one of the at least one of the one or more collected images.