# US 8,751,163 B2 · System and method for providing an electronic representation of a route > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 8,751,163 B2 - Document ID: US8751163B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/083,222 - Filed: 2011-04-08 - Published: 2012-10-11 - Granted: 2014-06-10 - Earliest claimed: 2011-04-08 - Assignees: Fleetmatics Irl Limited - Applicants: Peter Mitchell - Inventors: Peter Mitchell - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US8751163B2 ## CPC - G01C 21/3647: {Guidance involving output of stored or live camera images or video streams} - G08G 1/202: {Dispatching vehicles on the basis of a location, e.g. taxi dispatching} - G01C: MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY (measuring liquid level G01F; radio navigation, determining distance or velocity by use of propagation effects, e.g. Doppler effects, propagation time, of radio waves, analogous arrangements using other waves G01S) - G08G: TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS (guiding railway traffic, ensuring the safety of railway traffic B61L; arrangement of road signs or traffic signals E01F9/00; radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for traffic control G01S13/91, G01S15/88, G01S17/88; {radar or analogous systems, sonar systems, lidar systems specially adapted for anti-collision purposes G01S13/93, G01S15/93, G01S17/93}) ## 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. ## Claims ### Claim 1 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. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the area representation for each location comprises at least one ground level image representation of the location. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one ground level image is a photographic image. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises: receiving a record of a route recorded by a GPS device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises: accessing a record of the route on a computer configured store GPS data accessing a map database to displaying the route as a map. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises: displaying the plurality of sequential displays of the ground level area representations along the recorded route so as to replicate a first person view of the route. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6 wherein the method further comprises: configuring the computer to provide to a graphic user interface an user-interactive interface to control and replay the ground level sequential displays. ### Claim 8 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6 wherein the method comprises: receiving a record of a route recorded by a GPS device; and displaying the plurality of sequential displays in a time sequence different than that of the speed of the GPS recorded route. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The method of claim 7 wherein the method further comprises: providing, for at least one of the plurality of locations, a plurality of area representations configured to display a 360 degree view of the location for the first person view. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 wherein the method further comprises: accessing a database storing a plurality of the recorded routes; wherein the at least one computer and the computer readable storage medium or media includes computer code that causes the at least one computer to cause a display device to display thereon, for each stored route, the plurality of sequential displays of the area representations along the recorded route. ### Claim 11 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. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The computer system of claim 1 wherein the one or more processors are further programmed at least to: receive at least one ground level image representation for each location along the route. ### Claim 13 (depends on 11) The computer system of claim 11, wherein the at least one ground level image comprises a photographic image. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The computer system of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors are further programmed at least to: access a record of a route recorded by a GPS device. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The computer system of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors are further programmed at least to: access a record of the route for provision to a computer configured to display the route as map. ### Claim 16 (depends on 11) The computer system of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors are further programmed at least to cause the display to: cause the display device to display thereon the plurality of sequential displays of the ground level area representations along the recorded route so as to replicate a first person view of the route. ### Claim 17 (depends on 11) The computer system of claim 11, wherein the computer is configured to provide to a graphic user interface a user-interactive interface to control and replay the ground level sequential displays. ### Claim 18 (depends on 11) The computer system of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors are further programmed at least to: receive a record of a route recorded by a GPS device; and cause the display device to display thereon the plurality of sequential displays in a time sequence different than that of the speed of the GPS recorded route. ### Claim 19 (depends on 11) The computer system of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors are further programmed at least to: provide, for at least one of the plurality of locations, a plurality of area representations configured to display a 360 degree view of the location for the first person view. ### Claim 20 (depends on 11) The computer system of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors are further programmed at least to: store a plurality of the recorded routes; and cause the display device to display thereon, for each stored route, the plurality of sequential displays of the ground level area representations along the recorded route. ### Claim 21 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.