Method of Operating a Navigation System Using Images
AssigneeHERE North America LLC
InventorsAdil M. Musabji, Jason Borak, James D. Lynch, Narayanan Alwar, Jon D. Shutter
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Abstract
A navigation system comprises a processor, a geographic database and a guidance application executable on the processor. The guidance application obtains data from the geographic database and obtains a photographic image. The guidance application overlays an advertisement route highlight on said photographic image. The advertisement route highlight graphically illustrates a path corresponding to a route and a direction of travel for the route. The advertisement route highlight includes a series of advertisement decals.
Claims20
A navigation system comprising:
- a processor;
- a geographic database stored on a computer readable medium;
- and
- a guidance application executable on said processor to obtain data from the geographic database and to obtain a photographic image and to overlay an advertisement route highlight on said photographic image, wherein said photographic image provides a land-based view, wherein the advertisement route highlight graphically illustrates a path corresponding to a route and a direction of travel for the route, wherein the advertisement route highlight includes a series of advertisement decals.
A method of operating a navigation system comprising:
- determining a route between an origin and a destination;
- providing a photographic image showing a geographic area through which said route passes, wherein said photographic image shows the geographic area from a land-based viewpoint;
- and
- providing an advertisement route highlight on said photographic image identifying a path corresponding to the route, wherein the advertisement route highlight includes a series of advertisement decals.
A method comprising:
- determining a route between an origin and a destination;
- providing a photographic image showing a geographic area through which said route passes, wherein said photographic image shows the geographic area from a land-based viewpoint;
- and
- providing a route highlight on said photographic image identifying the route, wherein the route highlight includes a series of decals providing visual information representing at least one feature of the route or the destination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.