Patent ID: 9558576
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G01C,G06T

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving a depthmap of optical distance data corresponding to a pathway; receiving image data from at least one panoramic image including physical features corresponding to a path side view; receiving map data including physical features corresponding to a top down view with respect to the pathway; dividing the optical distance data corresponding to the pathway into a plurality of planes based on one or more distance thresholds for each plane of the plurality of planes, wherein the one or more distance thresholds are associated with known reference points corresponding to the path side view; correlating the optical distance data of the plurality of planes and the image data, wherein a geographic distance of each image data point determines which plane of the plurality of planes that the image data is associated with; defining a pixel value for each point of a range of points of the optical distance data of each of the plurality of planes according to a section of the image data, wherein a size of each image data section is based on a length of an orthogonal line between each plane and each respective point of the optical distance data; rotating the pixel values correlated with the optical distance data of at least two of the plurality of planes using the depthmap; and providing for display of map data including physical features corresponding to the top down view with respect to the pathway aligned with respective physical features corresponding to the path side view of the rotated pixel values in the same plane, wherein image data of each plane is displayed at a rate based on one or more distance thresholds of each plane.