Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Continental Automotive Gmbh

Standard Microsystems Corporation

Continental Automotive Technologies Gmbh

Smsc Europe Gmbh

Christian Thiel

David J Knapp

Horace C Ho

James Herbst

Patrick Heck

Paul Barnard

Rainer Klos

Rainer P Mueller

Bingtao Gao

Han Zhang

Cheng Luo

Bo Hu

Jun Gao

Frank Försterling

Some embodiments include a method of generating an environment reference model for positioning comprising: receiving multiple data sets representing a scanned environment including information about a type of sensor used and data for determining an absolute position of objects or feature points represented by the data sets; extracting one or more objects or feature points from each data set; determining a position of each object or feature point in a reference coordinate system; generating a three-dimensional vector representation of the scanned environment aligned with the reference coordinate system including representation of the objects or feature points at corresponding locations, creating links between the objects or feature points in the three dimensional vector model with an identified type of sensor by which they can be detected in the environment; and storing the three-dimensional vector model representation and the links in a retrievable manner.

Environment model using cross-sensor feature point referencing

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Oberaudorf, Germany

Christian Thiel