发明授权
- 专利标题: Pictorial navigation
- 专利标题(中): 图形导航
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申请号: US11843748申请日: 2007-08-23
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公开(公告)号: US08364397B2公开(公告)日: 2013-01-29
- 发明人: Rick A. Hamilton, II , Neil A. Katz , Brian M. O'Connell , Keith R. Walker
- 申请人: Rick A. Hamilton, II , Neil A. Katz , Brian M. O'Connell , Keith R. Walker
- 申请人地址: US NY Armonk
- 专利权人: International Business Machines Corporation
- 当前专利权人: International Business Machines Corporation
- 当前专利权人地址: US NY Armonk
- 代理机构: Driggs, Hogg, Daugherty & Del Zoppo Co., LPA
- 代理商 Patrick J. Daugherty
- 主分类号: G01C21/00
- IPC分类号: G01C21/00 ; G01C21/34 ; G08G1/123
摘要:
Methods, systems and program products provide pictorial information relevant to a geographic location, through selecting characteristics relevant to geographic locations, searching pictorial image databases for images having an embedded tags associated with the characteristics, retrieving image files from databases having embedded tags correlated to characteristics and visually depicting a physical appearance or an attribute of a location, analyzing characteristics image files and responsively selecting preferred image data, formatting preferred image data for presentation to a user, associating formatted preferred data with geographic locations, and presenting associated formatted data to a user in association with geographic locations. Characteristic include global positioning satellite coordinates. Image data may be selected having preferred image resolutions or perspectives. Formatting pictorial information may comprise synthesizing photographs into a constructs. Associated image data may indicate a distance and direction from a geographic location. Routing system applications are enabled to present pictorial information with each navigation route points.
公开/授权文献
- US20090055093A1 PICTORIAL NAVIGATION METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT 公开/授权日:2009-02-26
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