发明名称 PICTORIAL NAVIGATION METHOD, SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT
摘要 Methods, systems and program products provide pictorial information relevant to a geographic location, through selecting characteristics relevant to geographic locations, searching pictorial image databases for images having an embedded tags associated with the characteristics, retrieving image files from databases having embedded tags correlated to characteristics and visually depicting a physical appearance or an attribute of a location, analyzing characteristics image files and responsively selecting preferred image data, formatting preferred image data for presentation to a user, associating formatted preferred data with geographic locations, and presenting associated formatted data to a user in association with geographic locations. Characteristic include global positioning satellite coordinates. Image data may be selected having preferred image resolutions or perspectives. Formatting pictorial information may comprise synthesizing photographs into a constructs. Associated image data may indicate a distance and direction from a geographic location. Routing system applications are enabled to present pictorial information with each navigation route points.
申请公布号 US2009055093(A1) 申请公布日期 2009.02.26
申请号 US20070843748 申请日期 2007.08.23
申请人 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION 发明人 HAMILTON, II RICK A.;KATZ NEIL A.;O'CONNELL BRIAN M.;WALKER KEITH R.
分类号 G01C21/32;G01C21/00;G01C21/34 主分类号 G01C21/32
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