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Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017

Filed:

May. 20, 2015
Applicant:

Uber Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Seth Alan Woolley, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3658 (2013.01); B60W 2550/402 (2013.01);
Abstract

A navigation system provides lane guidance for a navigation route. The navigation route specifies actions for a user to navigate a route from an originating point to a destination along a set of road segments. The lane guidance at a position along the navigation route scores the lanes and provides the lane scoring for the user. To score the lanes, the navigation system determines a lane distance for each lane indicating how far along the navigation route a user may continue to use this lane, without shifting to another lane. The lane distance may be measured up to a look-ahead distance. The lane distance includes distance along subsequent road segments of the route, such that when a lane turns onto a lane on another road segment according to the navigation route, the distance along the other road may be included in the lane distance.


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