Patent Document ID: 9846915
Application ID: 15079144
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for capturing property damage images, the system comprising: a data storage facility containing a knowledge base of property damage incident types and, for each incident type, one or more image acquisition parameters that are associated with the incident type; an imaging device mounted to an aerial drone; a processing device having one or more communications components configured to communicate with the data storage facility and the imaging device; and a computer-readable medium containing programming instructions that are configured to, when executed, cause the computer processor to: receive an incident type for a property damage claim of a property related to an incident, access the data storage facility and retrieve from the knowledge base one or more image acquisition parameters that are associated with the received property damage incident type, use the one or more image acquisition parameters to automatically cause the imaging device to capture digital images of the property using the retrieved one or more image acquisition parameters, wherein the one or more image acquisition parameters comprise a flight path for the aerial drone, automatically process a plurality of the digital images captured by the imaging device to identify at least one digital image that depicts property damage that corresponds to the incident type by: extracting from the knowledge base one or more image quality criteria that are associated with the received property damage incident type, and automatically detecting the at least one digital image having one or more characteristics that satisfy the one or more image quality criteria, and upon identification of the at least one digital image that depicts property damage that corresponds to the incident type, adjust the flight path for the aerial drone based on one or more of the identified at least one digital image.