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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 2/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 2/100 ;
Abstract
In a method for encoding objects in a traffic route network, to which information from one transmitter at a time to a receiver is transmitted, and for the encoding and decoding of which different databases, in particular digital maps of the traffic route network, can be used in the transmitter and the receiver, the objects are each provided with at least one coordinate chain, which is located at least in part on traffic routes that are also included in the database of the receiver, and which includes characteristic properties of parts of the traffic route network.