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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2012
Applicant:
Audi Ag, Ingolstadt, DE;
Inventors:
Assignees:
AUDI AG, Ingolstadt, DE;
VOLKSWAGEN AG, Wolfsburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/00 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3602 (2013.01); B60W 2550/22 (2013.01); B60W 2550/402 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for position determination, in particular of a motor vehicle, includes optically capturing an object having a known geographic position and matching the geographic position of the object with stored map data. The object may be a road sign having distance information, which is optically recognized at the vehicle. The distance information is subsequently evaluated using optical character recognition.