G01C 21/3644
Landmark guidance
Official title: {Landmark guidance, e.g. using POIs or conspicuous other objects}
G01C21/3644 (Landmark guidance) appears on 446 US grants and 583 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01C- Granted patents
- 446
- Published applications
- 583
- Assignees
- 201
- Inventors
- 1,134
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 15 | 28 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Context aware navigation voice assistant6 Oct 2026US 12,754,035 B2Google Inc.
- Real-time route configuring of entertainment content22 Sep 2026US 12,742,650 B2Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
- Method and algorithm for map-matching trips to POIs18 Aug 2026US 12,710,276 B2HERE Global B. V.
- Systems and methods for using visual landmarks in initial navigation11 Aug 2026US 12,704,383 B2Google Inc.
- Generating augmented reality images for display on a mobile device based on ground truth image rendering11 Aug 2026US 12,705,550 B2Uber Technologies, Inc.
- Navigation arrow display method, vehicle-mounted device, readable storage medium, and chip20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243580 A1Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Route guidance device and route guidance system based on augmented reality and mixed reality20 Aug 2026US 2026/0245304 A1LG Electronics Inc.
- Information processing device, information processing method, and recording medium30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219056 A1NEC Corporation
- Systems and methods for providing real-time route views30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219057 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Guidance revising method and guidance revising apparatus23 Jul 2026US 2026/0210724 A1Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Travel guide388US 6,266,614 B12001
- Interactive multimedia tour guide302US 6,526,351 B22003
- Navigational lane guidance257US 9,423,266 B2TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. · 2016
- Navigation system for guiding a mobile unit through a route to a destination using landmarks254US 6,078,865 AXanavi Informatics Corporation · 2000
- Process and system for the annotation of machine-generated directions with easily recognized landmarks and other relevant information221US 6,477,460 B2Metro One Telecommunications, Inc. · 2002