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US 2009/0276151 A1Published application
Method and system for providing video mapping and travel planning services
AssigneeVerizon Laboratories Inc.
InventorVittorio Bucchieri
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Abstract
An approach is provided for providing a first-person perspective video mapping service. Information corresponding to a geographic area is received from a subscriber of the mapping service over a network. One or more first-person perspective videos of at least a portion of the geographic area are retrieved based on the information. A first-person perspective video map is generated using the retrieved first-person perspective video(s) and is transmitted to the subscriber over the network.
Claims25
A method comprising:
- receiving, from a subscriber over a network, information corresponding to a geographic area as part of a mapping service;
- retrieving, based on the information, a first-person perspective video of at least a portion of the geographic area;
- and
- generating a first-person perspective video map using the first-person perspective video.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a communication interface configured to receive, from a subscriber over a network, information corresponding to a geographic area as part of a mapping service;
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- a processor configured to retrieve, based on the information, a first-person perspective video of at least a portion of the geographic area and generate a first-person perspective video map using the first-person perspective video.
A method comprising:
- transmitting, over a network, to a service provider of a mapping service, information corresponding to a geographic area;
- receiving, over the network, from the service provider, first-person perspective video mapping information corresponding to at least a portion of the geographic area;
- and
- presenting the first-person perspective video mapping information to a subscriber of the mapping service.
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A system comprising:
- a repository including a plurality of first-person perspective videos of a geographic area, the first-person perspective videos being acquired from one or more mobile imaging devices and being stored to the repository according to positional and directional information;
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- a mapping module configured to receive, from a subscriber, information corresponding to the geographic area, to selectively retrieve first-person perspective videos from the repository based on the information corresponding to the geographic area, and to generate a first-person perspective video map using the selectively retrieved first-person perspective videos,
- wherein the first-person perspective video map is transmitted to the subscriber as part of a mapping service.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.