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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:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2012
Applicant:
Yasuo Mutoh, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yasuo Mutoh, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/12 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G09B 29/10 (2006.01); G01C 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2013.01); G01C 21/3469 (2013.01); G09B 29/106 (2013.01); G01C 21/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A device, system and method of embodiments of the invention include a route comparison device having circuitry configured to acquire location information of a starting point and a goal point, acquire shape data of a reference route between the starting point and the goal point, search for a route between the starting point and the goal point, and calculate, by comparing shape data of a found route which has been found and the shape data of the reference route, a degree of matching indicating a degree of correspondence between the routes.