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1. A method, comprising:
- determining in an apparatus whether to initiate information sensing at an instance in time, wherein information sensing at the instance in time comprises;
if the apparatus comprises motion sensing resources, sensing the motion of the apparatus and recording any sensed motion information;
if the apparatus comprises visual sensing resources, sensing visual information corresponding to a location, extracting visual elements from the sensed visual information and recording any extracted visual elements;
if the apparatus comprises at least one of electromagnetic signal or magnetic field sensing resources, sensing at least one of signal or field information and recording any sensed signal or field information;
correlating the motion information sensed at the instance in time, the extracted visual elements and the signal or field information sensed at the instance in time; and
storing the correlated information corresponding to the instance in time in association with stored correlated information corresponding to previous instances in time.
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Abstract
A system for creating a representation of a location based on information sensed at the location. For example, apparatuses may comprise various sensors that sense apparatus-related information (e.g., motion, direction, etc.) while also visual, signal, field, etc. information pertaining to a location. Apparatuses may store sensed information about the apparatus while at a particular location, and about the particular location itself, in a mapping database, which may then associate the various types of sensed information with information already stored in the database in order to create a representation of the location.
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1. A method, comprising:
determining in an apparatus whether to initiate information sensing at an instance in time, wherein information sensing at the instance in time comprises; if the apparatus comprises motion sensing resources, sensing the motion of the apparatus and recording any sensed motion information; if the apparatus comprises visual sensing resources, sensing visual information corresponding to a location, extracting visual elements from the sensed visual information and recording any extracted visual elements; if the apparatus comprises at least one of electromagnetic signal or magnetic field sensing resources, sensing at least one of signal or field information and recording any sensed signal or field information; correlating the motion information sensed at the instance in time, the extracted visual elements and the signal or field information sensed at the instance in time; and storing the correlated information corresponding to the instance in time in association with stored correlated information corresponding to previous instances in time. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A computer program product comprising computer executable program code recorded on a computer readable storage medium, the compute executable program code comprising:
code configured to cause an apparatus to determine whether to initiate information sensing at an instance in time, wherein code for causing the apparatus to perform information sensing at the instance in time further comprises; code configured to cause the apparatus to, if the apparatus comprises motion sensing resources, sense the motion of the apparatus and recording any sensed motion information; code configured to cause the apparatus to, if the apparatus comprises visual sensing resources, sense visual information corresponding to a location, extracting visual elements from the sensed visual information and recording any extracted visual elements; code configured to cause the apparatus to, if the apparatus comprises at least one of electromagnetic signal or magnetic field sensing resources, sense at least one of signal or field information and recording any sensed signal or field information; code configured to cause the apparatus to correlate the motion information sensed at the instance in time, the extracted visual elements and the signal or field information sensed at the instance in time; and code configured to cause the apparatus to store the correlated information corresponding to the instance in time in association with stored correlated information corresponding to previous instances in time. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An apparatus, comprising:
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at least one processor; and at least one memory including executable instructions, the at least one memory and the executable instructions being configured to, in cooperation with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following; determine whether to initiate information sensing at an instance in time, wherein information sensing at the instance in time comprises; if the apparatus comprises motion sensing resources, sense the motion of the apparatus and recording any sensed motion information; if the apparatus comprises visual sensing resources, sense visual information corresponding to a location, extracting visual elements from the sensed visual information and recording any extracted visual elements; if the apparatus comprises at least one of electromagnetic signal or magnetic field sensing resources, sense at least one of signal or field information and recording any sensed signal or field information; correlate the motion information sensed at the instance in time, the extracted visual elements and the signal or field information sensed at the instance in time; and store the correlated information corresponding to the instance in time in association with stored correlated information corresponding to previous instances in time. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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