Google patents 3D location models that respond to user queries
Google describes a system that creates interactive 3D models of specific places when users ask about them. It combines geographic data with image processing to build detailed 3D meshes and add simulated effects like weather or traffic.
In the filing’s own words
Generating a location-specific three-dimensional model in response to a location query can provide users with a better understanding of a location through providing better interactivity, better perspective, and better understanding of dimensionality. Generation of the models can be enabled by leveraging a three-dimensional asset database and segmentation methods. The location-specific models can provide further utility by further including situation specific simulated effects, such as simulated weather or traffic.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computing system, the system comprising: one or more processors; and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media that collectively store instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to perform operations, the operations comprising: obtaining a three-dimensional model that models a plurality of locations, wherein the three-dimensional model is generated based on geographic data, wherein the geographic data comprises vector data; generating, based on the three-dimensional model, one or more three-dimensional meshes of a particular location of the plurality of locations; generating one or more segmented images of the particular location based on processing one or more images from a database of image data; generating a location-specific segment based on projecting the one or more segmented images to the one or more three-dimensional meshes, wherein the location-specific segment comprises a reconstructed environment associated with the particular location; generating the location-specific video of the particular location based on the location-specific segment, wherein the location-specific video comprises a plurality of different perspective views of the location-specific segment; and providing the location-specific video of the particular location for display.
Facts
- Company
- Google (Google LLC)
- Official title
- Location-Specific Three-Dimensional Models Responsive to Location-Related Queries
- Publication number
- US20260268615A1
- Application number
- 19660684
- Filed
- Apr 28, 2026
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 8
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 19/006 Physics & computingG06T 7/11 Physics & computingG06T 19/003 Physics & computingG06T 2210/64 Physics & computingMore from Google in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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