System and method for providing an electronic representation of a route
AssigneeFleetmatics Irl Limited
InventorPeter Mitchell
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Abstract
Disclosed is a computer systems, methods and computer program products for providing an electronic representation of a route. A display device displays a plurality of sequential displays of the ground level area representations along the recorded route including: a first display comprising an origin location area representation; a plurality of sequential displays comprising sequential location area representations along the route; and a last display of a destination location area representation. The at least one ground level image can be a photographic image. A record of a route is recorded by a GPS device.
Claims21
A method of providing an electronic representation of a route, comprising, in at least one computer and a computer readable storage medium or media including computer code:
- accessing a record of a route traveled by a vehicle from an origin location to a destination location, wherein the record of the route comprises point-to-point locations recorded by a GPS device associated with the vehicle;
- receiving a plurality of ground level area representations of locations corresponding locations along the recorded route including an origin location and a destination location;
- the at least one computer and the computer readable storage medium or media including computer code that causes the at least one computer to cause a display device to display thereon:
- a plurality of sequential displays of the ground level area representations along the recorded route so as to replicate a real-time first person view of the route as travelled including:
- a first display comprising an origin location area ground level representation;
- a plurality of sequential displays comprising sequential location area ground level representations along the route;
- and
- a last display of a destination location area ground level representation.
A computer system including at least one computer processor and computer readable storage medium or media including computer code configured to provide an electronic representation of a route, the system comprising:
- one or more processors programmed at least to
- access, from a memory operatively coupled to at least one of the processors, a record of a route traveled by a vehicle from an origin location to a destination location, wherein the record of the route comprises of point-to-point GPS location data recorded by a GPS device associated with the vehicle;
- receive a plurality of ground level area representations of locations corresponding locations along the recorded route including an origin location and a destination location;
- and
- cause a display device to display thereon a plurality of sequential displays of the ground level area representations along the recorded route so as to replicate a real-time first person view of the route including
- a first display comprising an origin location area ground level representation;
- a plurality of sequential displays comprising sequential location ground level area representations along the route;
- and
- a last display of a destination location area ground level representation.
A computer program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by at least one processor within a computer system that comprises one or more processors and a memory operatively coupled to at least one of the processors, cause the computer system at least to:
- access, in a memory operatively coupled to at least one of the processors, a record of a route traveled by a vehicle from an origin location to a destination location, wherein the record of the route comprises point-to-point GPS location data recorded by a GPS device associated with the vehicle as traveled;
- receive a plurality of ground level area representations of locations corresponding locations along the recorded route including an origin location and a destination location;
- and
- cause display device to display thereon a plurality of sequential displays of the ground level area representations along the recorded route so as to replicate a real-time first person view of the route including
- a first display comprising an origin location ground level area representation;
- a plurality of sequential displays comprising sequential location ground level area representations along the route;
- and
- a last display of a destination location ground level area representation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.