Patent ID: 7072764
Filing Date: 2006-07-04
Classification: B60R,G01C,G06F

Abstract:
1. A geospatial database management system (GDMS), mounted on a host vehicle, managing geospatial data relating to travel paths having one or more lanes, comprising: a geospatial database storing data elements indicative of objects and a location of the objects in three dimensional space, the objects having a lane-level resolution and the location having an accuracy of approximately one decimeter or less; a database manager component configured to maintain the data elements in the geospatial database and receive database queries from a driver assist subsystem configured to assist a driver of the host vehicle based on the data elements stored in the geospatial database; and a query processor coupled to the database manager component and the geospatial database and configured to receive the database queries from the database manager component, query the geospatial database based on the database queries and return query results to the database manager component.