Method of collection and linking of positional data from satellite localization and other data
First Claim
1. A method for generation of a database for a vehicle guidance system, a fleet management system, an automatic vehicle emergency call system, a vehicle anti-theft system or for a system for simulation or visualization of real environments, the method comprising:
- (1) traveling with at least one vehicle through substantially all roads of one or several continuous areas, with a satellite localization device continuously and automatically gathering positional data relating to the actual position of each of the at least one vehicle and with one or several cameras taking pictures of individual adjacent buildings, substantially from a horizontal point of view;
(2) fixedly allocating each individual picture with said positional data, and thereafter storing said fixedly allocated picture with said positional data on one computer readable recording medium;
(3) determining the postal addresses of buildings contained in the taken pictures, with at least the house numbers being determined by the house number signs on the buildings, and (4) for each individual building, linking together and simultaneously recording in a database the positional data, data relating to the postal address and at least one digitized picture of the building.
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Abstract
The present invention refers to a method of collection and linking of positional data obtained by satellite localization and other data. At least one vehicle travels through substantially all streets of one or several continuous areas, with a satellite localization device continuously and automatically gathering positional data relating to the actual position of each vehicle and with one or several cameras taking pictures of individual adjacent buildings, substantially from a horizontal point of view. The postal addresses of the buildings contained in the taken pictures are determined, with at least the house numbers being determined by means of a house number sign on the buildings. For each individual building the positional data, data relating to the postal address and at least one digitized picture of the building are linked together and recorded in a database. This allows very accurate vehicle navigation systems but also many other applications not limited to vehicles.
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1. A method for generation of a database for a vehicle guidance system, a fleet management system, an automatic vehicle emergency call system, a vehicle anti-theft system or for a system for simulation or visualization of real environments, the method comprising:
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(1) traveling with at least one vehicle through substantially all roads of one or several continuous areas, with a satellite localization device continuously and automatically gathering positional data relating to the actual position of each of the at least one vehicle and with one or several cameras taking pictures of individual adjacent buildings, substantially from a horizontal point of view;
(2) fixedly allocating each individual picture with said positional data, and thereafter storing said fixedly allocated picture with said positional data on one computer readable recording medium;
(3) determining the postal addresses of buildings contained in the taken pictures, with at least the house numbers being determined by the house number signs on the buildings, and (4) for each individual building, linking together and simultaneously recording in a database the positional data, data relating to the postal address and at least one digitized picture of the building. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A method for generating a computerized database of potential data, comprising the steps of:
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a) traveling with at least one vehicle through substantially all roads of one or more continuous areas, and taking pictures of individual adjacent buildings, during said traveling step, substantially from a horizontal point of view from one or more cameras mounted on the at least one vehicle;
b) continuously and automatically gathering positional data relating to the actual position of each of the at least one vehicle via a corresponding satellite localization device;
c) fixedly allocating each individual picture with said positional data;
d) thereafter temporarily storing said fixedly allocated picture with said positional data on one computer readable recording medium e) determining postal addresses of buildings contained in said taken pictures, wherein at least the house numbers being identified by the house number signs on the buildings, and f) linking, for each individual building, the positional data, the postal address, and the at least one digitized picture for the building, and g) simultaneously recording the linked data of step f) in a database. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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