Sensor-less indoor navigation assistance

US10563988B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP SE · DE

Inventors

• Michael Ameling · Dresden, DE
• Martin Knechtel · Dresden, DE
• Philipp Herzig · Dresden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 9, 2014
• Grant date: Feb 18, 2020
• Expiry date: Jan 1, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01C21/206
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Various embodiments of systems and methods for providing navigation assistance are described herein. A navigation assistance request is received for commuting between the start waypoint and the destination waypoint. Based on the received request, the angle-orientation coordinates included in the angle-based navigation instruction are converted to direction-based navigation instructions. Finally, the direction-based navigation instructions are provided to a user. In one embodiment, the direction-based navigation instructions are stored in a directed weighted graph. The directed weighted graph may be used to determine navigation instructions for an intersection point. In one embodiment, crowdsourcing is used to collect the navigation instructions.