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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2012
Vladimir Ivanov, Munich, DE;
Thomas Feldbauer, Regensburg, DE;
Alexey Pryakhin, München, DE;
Peter Kunath, Munich, DE;
Marek Strassenburg-kleciak, Garching, DE;
Vladimir Ivanov, Munich, DE;
Thomas Feldbauer, Regensburg, DE;
Alexey Pryakhin, München, DE;
Peter Kunath, Munich, DE;
Marek Strassenburg-Kleciak, Garching, DE;
HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH, Karlsbad, DE;
Abstract
A database for a navigation system has digital elevation model data defining a three-dimensional surface. The database stores, for plural tiles of a tiling, a first array including three-dimensional coordinates of vertices of plural triangulated irregular networks, TINs, for the respective tile, and a plurality of second arrays. Each second array respectively defines triangular faces of a TIN and includes a plurality of vertex indices of the vertices to define triangular faces of the respective TIN. A method of outputting a three-dimensional representation of a terrain and a method of generating the database are also described.