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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2017
Here Global B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Ole Henry Dorum, Chicago, IL (US);
HERE GLOBAL B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A mapping system, method and computer program product are provided to identify a parking lot from probe data. In the context of a mapping system, processing circuitry is configured to determine a parking likelihood for each grid cell based upon probe data points associated with the respective grid cells and to identify likely parking locations in instances in which the parking likelihood for a respective grid cell satisfies a predefined threshold. The processing circuitry is also configured to cluster likely parking locations to identify parking lot clusters and to determine the boundary of the parking lot pursuant to a deformable contour model which causes a polygon to expand from a respective parking lot cluster so as to represent the boundary of the parking lot. The processing circuitry is further configured to update a map to include the parking lot having the boundary determined pursuant to the deformable contour model.