Driving assistant system

• US 10,254,125 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2016
• Issued: 04/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Nobuyuki, Okada, Masakuni, Shimura, Takeyuki, Yoshinaga, Hiroki
• Primary Examiner(s): Williams, Jeffery A
• Application Number:
  US15/350,381
• Publication Number:
  US 20180136001A1
• Time in Patent Office: 876 Days
• Field of Search: 348118
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/00 Details of control systems for road vehicle drive control not related to the control of a particular sub-unit , e.g. process diagnostic or vehicle driver interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3644 Landmark guidance, e.g. using POIs or conspicuous other objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 18/22 Matching criteria, e.g. proximity measures
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/20 in augmented reality scenes
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/56 exterior to a vehicle by using sensors mounted on the vehicle

Abstract

Driving assistant systems and computer-implemented methods for improving landmark-based route guidance are provided. The computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a processor, image data including one or more landmarks. The computer-implemented method further includes identifying, by the processor, a candidate landmark within the image data. The computer-implemented method further includes presenting, by the processor, the candidate landmark to a user. The computer-implemented method further includes, in response to the user accepting the candidate landmark, storing, by the processor, the candidate landmark and a location of the candidate landmark.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a memory having computer readable instructions; and

a processing device for executing the computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions cause the processing device to;

receive image data comprising one or more landmarks;

identify a candidate landmark within the image data;

present the candidate landmark to a user;

in response to the user accepting the candidate landmark, store data regarding the candidate landmark and a location of the candidate landmark; and

in response to the user rejecting the candidate landmark, presenting a new candidate landmark to the user.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer readable instructions further cause the processing device to:

compare a position of the user to the location;

determine whether the position is within a threshold distance of the location;

in response to determining that the position is within a threshold distance of the location, compare the stored candidate landmark to an image of the candidate landmark in the image data to identify a change; and

present the change to the user.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the computer readable instructions further cause the processing device to, in response to the user accepting the candidate landmark, tag the candidate landmark with landmark metadata.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein identifying a candidate landmark within the image data is in response to receiving a trigger.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the trigger comprises contextual user speech triggers, user command triggers, automatic route triggers, third party triggers, or user selection triggers.

6. A computer program product for improving landmark-based route guidance, the computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processing device to cause the processing device to perform a method comprising;

receiving image data comprising one or more landmarks;

identifying a candidate landmark within the image data;

presenting the candidate landmark to a user;

in response to the user accepting the candidate landmark, storing data regarding the candidate landmark and a location of the candidate landmark; and

in response to the user rejecting the candidate landmark, presenting a new candidate landmark to the user.

7. The computer program product of claim 6, further comprising:

comparing a position of the user to the location;

in response to determining that the position is within a threshold distance of the location, comparing the stored candidate landmark to an image of the candidate landmark in the image data to identify a change; and

presenting the change to the user.

8. The computer program product of claim 6, further comprising tagging the candidate landmark with landmark metadata in response to the user accepting the candidate landmark.

9. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein identifying a candidate landmark within the image data is in response to receiving a trigger.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein the trigger comprises contextual user speech triggers, user command triggers, automatic route triggers, third party triggers, or user selection triggers.