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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2009
Applicant:
Jeroen Trum, Eindhoven, NL;
Inventor:
Jeroen Trum, Eindhoven, NL;
Assignee:
TomTom International B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A navigation device includes a processor, a memory accessible by the processor, and a device to determine at least one physical parameter applied to the navigation device and to output information indicative of the at least one parameter to the processor. In at least one embodiment, the processor is arranged to determine a road-surface feature based upon the received information and to store road-surface quality information in the memory indicating the location of the road-surface feature.