US 11,940,285 B2
Techniques for route selection
Sai Pradeep Venkatraman, Santa Clara, CA (US); Meghna Agrawal, Cupertino, CA (US); and Weihua Gao, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/648,407.
Application 17/648,407 is a continuation of application No. 15/978,408, filed on May 14, 2018, granted, now 11,293,769.
Prior Publication US 2022/0146273 A1, May 12, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G01C 21/34 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/3446 (2013.01) 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of route selection to one or more destinations by a device, the method comprising:
receiving a starting point and the one or more destinations;
transmitting a request to a server for routes associated with the starting point and the one or more destinations;
receiving, from the server, a plurality of routes to the one or more destinations; and
selecting a route from the plurality of routes based at least on one or more reliability parameters associated with each route of the plurality of routes, the one or more reliability parameters comprising a likelihood of determining, by the device, a position location of the device along each route, the likelihood being based at least on detectability of features in each route by one or more object detection modalities.