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- Patent Title: Accident reconstruction implementing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
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Application No.: US17723908Application Date: 2022-04-19
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Publication No.: US12020330B2Publication Date: 2024-06-25
- Inventor: Nathan L. Tofte , Timothy W Ryan , Nathan W. Baumann , Michael Shawn Jacob , Joshua David Lillie , Brian N. Harvey , Roxane Lyons , Rosemarie Geier Grant
- Applicant: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
- Applicant Address: US IL Bloomington
- Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
- Current Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Bloomington
- Agency: MARSHALL, GERSTEIN & BORUN LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q40/08
- IPC: G06Q40/08 ; B64C39/02 ; B64D47/08 ; G01C11/02 ; G06F18/22 ; G06Q40/00 ; G06T7/00 ; G06T7/20 ; G06T7/246 ; G06T7/73 ; G06T11/60 ; G06T17/05 ; G06V10/42 ; G06V20/10 ; G06V20/40 ; H04N5/44 ; H04N7/18 ; B64U10/00 ; B64U101/00 ; B64U101/30

Abstract:
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may facilitate the generation of a virtual reconstruction model of a vehicle collision. UAVs may collect data (including images) related to the vehicle collision, such as with the insured's permission, which may be received by an external computing device associated with the insurer and utilized to perform a photogrammetric analysis of the images to determine vehicle impact points, the road layout at the scene of the collision, the state of the traffic light at the scene of the collision, the speeds and directions of vehicles, etc. This data may be used to generate a virtual reconstruction model of the vehicle collision. An insurer may use the virtual reconstruction model to perform various insurance-related tasks, such as allocating fault to drivers or autonomous vehicles involved in the vehicle collision, and adjustment of insurance pricing based upon the fault allocation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220245720A1 ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION IMPLEMENTING UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAVS) Public/Granted day:2022-08-04
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