Patent 7124022 was granted and assigned to Qinetiq Limited on October, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates to data mapping and involves the mapping of at least one feature from one data set to a corresponding feature in a second data set. Individual points of the features are initially mapped and an transformation for mapping the entire feature is derived from the individual mappings. The feature mapping may be used to enhance vehicle navigation, in feature tracking algorithms, and in image processing systems.