Patent ID: 9417070
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G01C,G06F,G08G

Claim Text:
1. A method for identifying a path of a vehicle through a selected area comprising: A) providing a computer system receiving data from at least one of a database and an object detection system describing a position of the vehicle relative to the selected area; B) modeling as a color-coded heat map, within a memory of the computer system, the selected area as a plurality of sub-areas, selected of the sub-areas having a flight object associated therewith; C) associating with each of the plurality of sub-areas one or more parameters, at least one of the parameters representing a summation value; D) modifying the summation value associated with selected of the plurality of sub-areas in relation to a proximity of a sub-area another of the plurality of sub-areas having a flight object associated therewith; E) determining one or more sub-areas having a summation value satisfying a predetermined rule; and F) identifying adjacent of the sub-areas satisfying the predetermined rule as representing the path of the vehicle through the area wherein each of the sub-areas has associated therewith a color indicating if the summation value associated with the sub-area satisfies the predetermined rule and, displaying on a navigation display, the identified path of the vehicle.