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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2011
Kirk Schloegel, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Valerie Guralnik, Mound, MN (US);
Scott Mccloskey, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Ben Miller, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Kirk Schloegel, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Valerie Guralnik, Mound, MN (US);
Scott McCloskey, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Ben Miller, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes at least one memory unit and at least one processing unit. The memory unit is configured to receive and store information associated with a particular geographical region. The processing unit configured to execute a computer program for discretizing an image of the geographical region into a plurality of sub-regions. Using these sub-regions, the processing unit may generate a graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges in which the nodes comprise the sub-regions. The processing unit may also geospatially partition an image of the geographical region according to the information that is associated with each of the sub-regions.