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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2000
Cornelius Hahlweg, Hildesheim, DE;
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
In a method for the automated joining of two-dimensional objects, two equally large sets of points of both objects are selected, one point of the second set being assigned precisely to each point the first set, and vice versa. An equation system is solved which can be obtained by setting up a transformation equation P ′=T(P ) for the set of points P with variable parameters a and by determining those values of parameters a for which the sum of all the squared distances between the transformed points P ′ and the assigned points G of the second set assumes a minimum and the first object is plotted on the second one with the aid of the transformation equation thus obtained. The method is suitable in particular for the automatic joining of maps in a motor vehicle navigation system.