ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,817, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Segmenting trajectory data" was invented by Andreas Schmitt (Cologne, Germany), Ming Gao (Harsum, Germany) and Oliver Roeth (Elze, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of segmenting trajectory data using a controller. Trajectory data with a plurality of points are received. A Douglas-Peucker algorithm is applied to the trajectory data in order to ascertain substantially straight sections separated by segmentation points. An algorithm is used on the trajectory data in order to detect curves, in the form of starting points and end points of curves...