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US 2016/0102992 A1Published application
Street-level guidance via route path
AssigneeUber Technologies, Inc.
InventorsAna Lilia Otero Diaz, Hae Jin Lee, Luis Eduardo Cabrera-Cordon, Doyop Kim
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Abstract
A street-level view can realistically reflect that objects occlude depicted route paths. Such objects can include guardrails, buildings, or any of a variety of other objects as described herein. A superior user experience that portrays route paths while taking real-world geometry into account can result.
Claims20
A method implemented at least in part by a computing device, the method comprising:
- in a street-level view of a depicted scene, superimposing a route path over the street-level view;
- and
- depicting the route path as occluded by a physical object in the street-level view.
A system comprising:
- in one or more computer-readable media, a stored representation of a digital map comprising information about street-level views, wherein the information comprises photographic scene bubbles associated with the street-level views and geometry associated with the street side views;
- a street-level view generator configured to receive a geometry and a photographic bubble associated with a street side view;
- wherein the street-level view generator is further configured to receive a viewpoint and output a street-level depiction of a route path as it appears from the viewpoint, wherein at least a portion of the route path is depicted as occluded by an occluding object indicated as being in front of the portion of the route path in the geometry.
One or more computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing system, perform a method comprising:
- detecting that a mobile device is approaching a turn onto a street at an intersection that is part of a route path between a starting point and a destination;
- responsive to detecting that the device is approaching the turn, displaying a photograph-based street-level view of the intersection;
- wherein displaying the photograph-based street-level view of the intersection comprises:
- displaying a superimposed name of the street on the photograph-based street-level view;
- displaying the route path as superimposed on the photograph-based street-level view;
- and
- depicting a portion of the superimposed route path as occluded by an object in the photograph-based street-level view.
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