Method for the supply of encoded geoimage data

• US 9,470,542 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2007
• Issued: 10/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Lukas, Klaus
• Primary Examiner(s): Desai, Resha
• Application Number:
  US12/311,349
• Publication Number:
  US 20090276152A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,315 Days
• Field of Search: 707/208
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3647 Guidance involving output of stored or live camera images or video streams

Abstract

Uncoded geographical image data for a pre-defined geographical region is stored in a server unit and at least one wireless communication interface is provided between the server unit and at least one navigation receiver module. At least one position information message is transmitted from the navigation receiver module to the server unit and an expectancy range is selected in the server unit according to the transmitted position information from the pre-defined geographical region. Uncoded geoimage data reproducing the expectancy range is determined and the first uncoded geoimage data is encoded in the server unit. The encoded geoimage data is then transferred to the navigation receiver module from the server unit via the wireless communication interface.

Claims

1. A method for supplying encoded geoimage data from a server unit to at least one navigation receiver module for a geographical region pre-defined by geographical image data stored in the server unit, via at least one wireless communication interface between the server unit and the at least one navigation receiver module, comprising:

transmitting a message at least with position information from a navigation receiver module to the server unit;

selecting an expectancy range within the geographical region by the server unit based at least on the position information;

determining first geoimage data reproducing the expectancy range;

encoding the first geoimage data in the server unit to produce first encoded geoimage data;

transmitting the first encoded geoimage data from the server unit to the navigation receiver module via the at least one wireless communication interface;

determining a buffer region surrounding the expectancy range based on the expectancy range selected;

determining, by the server unit, second geoimage data for displaying the buffer region;

encoding the second geoimage data to obtain second encoded geoimage data differing from the first encoded geoimage data by at least one of image encoding method and coding depth; and

transmitting the second encoded geoimage data from the server unit to the navigation receiver module via the at least one wireless communication interface.

2. A method according to claim 1,

further comprising transmitting directional information in addition to the position information from the navigation receiver module to the server unit, and

wherein said selecting the expectancy range within the geographical region is based on the directional information, as well as the position information.

3. A method according to claim 2, further comprising transmitting speed information in addition to the position information, and

wherein said selecting the expectancy range within the geographical region is based on the directional information and the speed information.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein said encoding of the first geoimage data uses a first coding depth and said encoding of the second geoimage data uses a second coding depth, the first coding depth being higher than the second coding depth.

5. A method according to claim 4, wherein the geographical region is subdivided into a plurality of geographical navigation segments.

6. A method according to claim 5, further comprising determining an object navigation segment, including a current location of an object associated with the navigation receiver module, based on the position information transmitted by the navigation receiver module.

7. A method according to claim 6,

further comprising determining adjacent navigation segments adjacent to the object navigation segment, and

wherein said determining of the object navigation segment and the adjacent navigation segments occurs during said selecting of the expectancy range.

8. A method according to claim 7, further comprising transmitting an identification number, associated with the navigation receiver module, to the server unit.

9. A method according to claim 8,

further comprising determining previously transmitted geoimage data which has already been transmitted to the navigation receiver module based on the identification number, and

wherein said transmitting of the first encoded geoimage data transmits delta updates to the navigation receiver module describing alterations to the previously transmitted geoimage data occurring since a most recent transmission.

10. A method according to claim 6, further comprising:

determining adjacent navigation segments adjacent to the object navigation segment based on the directional information, and

adding the adjacent navigation segments to the expectancy range.

11. A method according to claim 10, wherein said determining of the buffer region determines further navigation segments adjacent to the expectancy range.

12. A method according to claim 11, wherein third geoimage data, remaining within the geographical region outside the first and second geoimage data, is associated with a coverage area.

13. A method according to claim 12, further comprising encoding the third geoimage data with a third coding depth, lower than the second coding depth by an amount greater than a difference between the first and second coding depths.