US 12,228,420 B2
Creating offroad maps with vehicle data
Kiran Kumar Ram Bharwani, San Ramon, CA (US)
Assigned to Rivian IP Holdings, LLC, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by Rivian IP Holdings, LLC, Plymouth, MI (US)
Filed on Nov. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/517,918.
Prior Publication US 2023/0138909 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. G01C 21/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/3815 (2020.08) [G01C 21/3826 (2020.08); G01C 21/3848 (2020.08); G01C 21/387 (2020.08)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a computing device including:
a processor;
a positioning system in communication with the processor and configured to determine positional coordinates of the positioning system; and
computer-readable media configured to store computer-executable instructions configured to cause the processor to:
responsive to determining that the positional coordinates indicate that the positioning system is operating on a new unmapped route that is not included in an existing map data repository accessible by the processor, log the positional coordinates for each of a plurality of points along the new unmapped route in a new route data set including the new unmapped route;
log additional data for at least a portion of the new unmapped route in the new route data set;
assign, by a scoring system based on at least the additional data, a route difficulty score to the new unmapped data;
determine the new unmapped route is completed based on a determination that a position, as determined by the positioning system, of the computing device is on a known road in the existing map data repository; and
communicate the new route data set and the route difficulty score to a new map data repository of a remote data store that is accessible by one or more users other than a user associated with the computing device, the new map data repository including a plurality of prior new route data sets,
wherein each of the plurality of prior new route data sets comprises a prior unmapped route relative to the existing map data repository such that the new route data set and the route difficulty score are searchable, by the one or more users, from among the new unmapped route and the plurality of prior unmapped routes within the new map data repository.