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Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 18, 2017
Applicant:

Zendrive, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Romit Roy Choudhury, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jayanta Pal, San Francisco, CA (US);

Pankaj Risbood, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jonathan Matus, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Zendrive, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/16 (2006.01); G01C 21/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/165 (2013.01); G01C 21/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for primarily sensor-based navigation includes: in a first time period, collecting geophysical position data using a GPS receiver of a navigation device; in the first time period, collecting a first set of accelerometer data using an accelerometer of the navigation device; analyzing the first set of accelerometer data to produce a first set of vertical vehicular motion data; generating a mapping association between the first set of vertical vehicular motion data and the geophysical position data; in a second time period after the first time period, collecting a second set of accelerometer data using the accelerometer; analyzing the second set of accelerometer data to produce a second set of vertical vehicular motion data; and calculating an estimated location of the vehicle by analyzing the second set of vertical vehicular motion data in light of the mapping association.


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