Lidar enabled wayfinding system
AssigneePhunware, Inc.
InventorsAndrew Soltan, Troy Stump
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Abstract
A LIDAR enabled wayfinding system includes a LiDAR equipped mapper mobile device adapted to LiDAR-scan within a building to create a building Universal Scene Description (USD), a management server receptive to the building USD and operative to develop a building bundle file including a plurality of waypoints associated with a corresponding plurality of waypoint fingerprints, and a LiDAR equipped user mobile device adapted to LiDAR-scan a user location within the building and to develop a user USD and user location fingerprint that is compared to the plurality of waypoint fingerprints to identify at least one proximate waypoint to the user.
Claims19
A LIDAR enabled wayfinding system comprising:
- a LiDAR equipped mapper mobile device adapted to LiDAR-scan within a building to create a building Universal Scene Description (USD);
- a management server receptive to the building USD and operative to maintain a building bundle file including a plurality of waypoints associated with a corresponding plurality of waypoint fingerprints;
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- a LiDAR equipped user mobile device adapted to LiDAR-scan a user location within the building and to develop a user location USD and user location fingerprint that is compared to the plurality of waypoint fingerprints to identify a waypoint proximate to the user location.
A method for LiDAR enabled wayfinding comprising:
- LiDAR-scanning within a building by a user to develop a user location Universal Scene Description (USD);
- creating a user location fingerprint from the user location USD;
- comparing the user location fingerprint with a plurality of waypoint fingerprints associated with a plurality of waypoints of the building to predict a waypoint location of the user within the building;
- and
- providing directions for the user to navigate from the user location to a desired destination within the building.
Non-transitory computer readable media including code segments executable on a user LiDAR device comprising:
- code segments for LiDAR-scanning a region within a building with a user LiDAR device to develop a user location Universal Scene Description (USD);
- code segments for creating a location fingerprint from the location USD;
- code segments for comparing the location fingerprint with a plurality of waypoint fingerprints associated with a plurality of waypoints of the building to predict a waypoint location of the user within the building;
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- code segments for providing directions to navigate from the user location to a desired destination within the building.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.