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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.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 27, 2012
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ammar Ibrahim, Zurich, CH;

Pascal Corpet, Gockhausen, CH;

Patrick Pui Wah Leung, Paris, FR;

Robert Allen Ryskamp, Mountain View, CA (US);

Christopher John Digiano, Saint Mandé, FR;

Iyad F. I. Assad, Ruschlikon, CH;

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00476 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes identifying a plurality of linear geographic dividers for a region, wherein the plurality of linear geographic dividers comprises one or more of streets, railways, electrical lines or rivers, determining a set of logical geometric blocks for the region, based on the identified plurality of linear geographic dividers and generating one or more tiles based at least on the plurality of linear geographic dividers and the determined logical geometric blocks.


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