Patent Document ID: 9659283
Application ID: 15280219
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system comprising: a controller that wirelessly transmits a command; a controllable inspection aircraft that includes an image sensor and actuates the image sensor in response to receiving the command; and one or more computing devices communicatively coupled to the controllable inspection aircraft, the one or more computing devices configured to: (a) receive from the controllable inspection aircraft one or more captured images of a building, the one or more captured images captured, via the image sensor of the controllable inspection aircraft, from one or more locations traversed by the controllable inspection aircraft; (b) generate a model of the building based on the one or more captured images; (c) estimate damage to the building based on an analysis of the generated model; (d) estimate a financial cost to remedy the damage estimated based on the analysis of the generated model; and (e) store to a memory the estimated financial cost.