Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
701436000 | Visual guidance having enhanced realism (e.g., 3 dimensional, etc.) | 14 |
20120029816 | Navigation Apparatus and Navigation Method - In order to notify a user that a facility is present in the neighborhood of a route to a destination, a mobile phone includes a location obtaining portion to obtain a present location (S | 02-02-2012 |
20120166078 | TURN-BY-TURN NAVIGATION-BASED DESCRIPTIVE DIRECTION INDICATOR FOR VEHICLES - A system for providing an externally visible signal regarding a navigational instruction at a vehicle includes a navigation system, a navigation message sender, a navigation message receiver, and a display system. The navigation system generates and outputs turn-by-turn navigational directions within the vehicle to assist a driver of the vehicle in reaching a given destination location. The navigation message sender receives the turn-by-turn navigational directions and transmits them to the navigation message receiver. The navigation message receiver provides a navigational message to the display system for display in a manner visible outside the vehicle. | 06-28-2012 |
20120185165 | NAVIGATION DEVICE WITH CAMERA-INFO - The present application relates to a navigation device carried by a vehicle. The navigation device is arranged to display navigation directions on a display, the navigation directions taking the form of a path representative of a planned route to be followed by the vehicle. The navigation device is further arranged to receive a feed from a camera. The navigation device is further arranged to display a combination of a camera image from the feed from the camera and the navigation directions on the display. | 07-19-2012 |
20120191344 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING LANE COMPLEXITY INFORMATION FOR NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A display method and apparatus in a navigation system to provide lane complexity information is disclosed. In one embodiment, the navigation system provides guidance information by displaying one or more color indicators on each lane to indicate lane complexity thereon. The lane complexity can be determined by the number of freeways connected at an interchange or how many lane changes the driver has to make before approaching the maneuver point. In another embodiment, each lane on the map is highlighted with the same color as each color indicator which is located on or above the lane. In a further embodiment, a lane and an exit may be highlighted to differentiate from the lane which the vehicle is currently is travelling on to remind the driver of the exit. | 07-26-2012 |
20120296564 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERY OF LOCATION-ORIENTED INFORMATION - An augmented reality guiding system for delivery of location-oriented information, including a location server, a database coupled to the location server, and at least one mobile locating device. The database is configured to store target information relating to target points of interest. Each mobile locating device has a positioning module, an imaging module, a spatial orientation detection module, a display module, and at least one wireless communication module. Each mobile locating device is configured to receive target information relating to at least one target points of interest from the location server, and display the target information by visually augmenting at least one image on the display module. | 11-22-2012 |
20120316779 | DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE - Provided is a driving assistance device which enables a driver to intuitively determine the relationship between the upper boundary line and the lower boundary line of an anticipated trajectory of travel that is displayed in three dimensions. The driving assistance device is provided with: an image processing device ( | 12-13-2012 |
20130018579 | PICTORIAL NAVIGATION - Pictorial information is provided 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 traveler, associating formatted preferred data with geographic locations, and presenting associated formatted data to the traveler in association with geographic locations. Characteristics 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 navigation route points. | 01-17-2013 |
20130124084 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the same are provided. The mobile terminal selectively provides 2D map data and 3D map data according to a predetermined event in a navigation mode, and thus by calling a driver's attention, the driver's visibility is improved, and a more accurate navigation service can be provided. | 05-16-2013 |
20130131978 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL TERRAIN AND ROUTE GUIDANCE - A display method and apparatus for displaying three-dimensional terrains and route guidance achieves a flexible and high detail three-dimensional display operation by enabling to change parameters, such as a viewing angle of a selected three-dimensional object, a height of a selected three-dimensional object, and a level of details (LOD) of a selected part of the image. The display method and apparatus also enables to compensate discontinuity, if any, at a border portion of two or more images where such parameters have been changed. Since such a change is made only a selected portion or object on the three-dimensional image, a computation power, memory space or other resources of the navigation system may not be overburdened by such operations. | 05-23-2013 |
20140244160 | Augmented reality financial institution branch locator - An augmented reality financial institution “FI”) branch locator uses the display screen of a mobile computing device (“MCD”) to show a customer that customer's real-world view of physical reality through the camera of the MCD on the MCD display screen (“camera image”), locations of FI branches for that customer's FI overlaid onto the camera image of the customer's physical location, locations of FI branches for competing FI's overlaid onto the same camera image, distances to the various FI branches overlaid onto the camera image, and directions to FI branches overlaid onto the camera image (together “augmented reality”) so that the user can navigate from the user's current location to a desired FI branch through the augmented reality image. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244161 | Method of Generating a Database for a Navigation Device, Method of Outputting a Three-Dimensional Map, and Navigation Device - In a method of generating a database for use in outputting three- dimensional maps, a projection of a two-dimensional road vector onto a three-dimensional surface defined by digital terrain model data is determined. At least one three-dimensional road vector ( | 08-28-2014 |
20140343840 | Method and System for Selectively Blending Buildings to Improve Route Visibility in a 3D Navigation System - The present invention relates to a method and system for selectively blending buildings to improve route visibility in a 3D navigation system. A method for displaying a 3D map may include: detecting whether or not an object to be displayed on a map screen intersects with a route guiding line on the map screen with the object intersecting the route guiding line being blended therewith. | 11-20-2014 |
20150100234 | Method and Device for Operating a Head-Up Display for a Vehicle - Predefined route data for a driving route situated in front of the vehicle in the driving direction are provided. Further, at least one predefined predictive operating variable for the vehicle is provided. A three-dimensional model for a predefined environment of the vehicle is determined as a function of the route data. A graphic element is determined as a function of the three-dimensional model and of the at least one predictive operating variable. A head-up display of the vehicle has a predefined display field. The graphic element is displayed in the predefined display field. The graphic element is determined and displayed such that the graphic element is perceived by a viewer of the display field from a predefined viewing position with direct reference to the real environment of the vehicle. | 04-09-2015 |
20160153800 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM | 06-02-2016 |