Patent ID: 9562782
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G01C,G06K

Claim:
1. A method for defining travel paths in parking areas, the method comprising: automatically identifying, by one or more processors, a parking area based at least in part on an estimated color value of one or more captured images of the parking area; for the parking area in which there is at least one travel path that is not represented as part of a digital map, defining, by the one or more processors, a set of travel paths in the parking area by (a) identifying a plurality of travel paths traversed by one or more vehicles in the parking area based at least in part on telematics data collected while the one or more vehicles were traversing the parking area, (b) connecting one or more street network connection points for the parking area, the one or more street network connection points providing the ability to enter the parking area from a street network, exit the parking area to the street network, or both, or (c) both; and updating, by the one or more processors, the digital map to comprise a representation of the set of travel paths defined in the parking area.