Collaborative creation of indoor maps

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9733091
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14178605

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This disclosure provides techniques for the creation of maps of indoor spaces. In these techniques, an individual or a team with no mapping or cartography expertise can contribute to the creation of maps of buildings, campuses or cities. An indoor location system can track the location of contributors in the building. As they walk through indoor spaces, an application may automatically create a map based on data from motion sensors by both tracking the location of the contributors and also inferring building features such as hallways, stairways, and elevators based on the tracked contributors' motions as they move through a structure. With these techniques, the process of mapping buildings can be crowd sourced to a large number of contributors, making the indoor mapping process efficient and easy to scale up.

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TRX SYSTEMS INC6411 IVY LANE SUITE 510 GREENBELT MD 20770

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Funk, Benjamin Hanover, US 30 424
Giles, Christopher Prince Frederick, US 21 241
Hakim, Dan Silver Spring, US 19 218
Karvounis, John Bowie, US 27 288
Kordari, Kamiar McLean, US 14 481
Napora, Jared Severn, US 25 521
Politi, Carol Bethesda, US 11 920
Teolis, Carole Glenn Dale, US 41 698

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