Interactive electronically presented map

• US 20050268254A1
• Filed: 08/08/2005
• Published: 12/01/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Activemap LLC
• Original Assignee: Activemap LLC
• Inventors: Jakubassa, Erika, Abramson, Michael, Atkin, Geoff, Grisham, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 7,555,725 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/855
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3673 Labelling using text of road map data items, e.g. road names, POI names
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3682 output of POI information on a road map G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04805 Virtual magnifying lens, i.e. window or frame movable on top of displayed information to enlarge it for better reading or selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/047 Fisheye or wide-angle transformations
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/053 Detail-in-context presentations fisheye or wide-angle transformations G06T3/047
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/007 using computer methods
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99948 Application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Abstract

The present invention provides computerized systems and methods for providing electronically presented interactive area representation, such as a map, and information associated therewith. A user can select text, imagery, or other information presented on the map and associated with one or more items or locations, causing presentation of information relating to the associated one or more items or locations, such as appropriate contact information or a hyperlink to an appropriate Web site. Additionally or alternatively, a user can input or select, based on a query or otherwise, information relating to one or more items or locations associated with text, imagery, or other information presented on the map, causing presentation of an indication of one or more locations of the associated text, imagery, or other information on the map. A magnifier feature allowing internal navigation within the map can be provided. Additionally, animated images can appear to move over the map.

Claims

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46. A system for providing an interactive electronic area representation of an area, comprising:

means for providing an electronic display of the area representation;

means for highlighting a minor portion of the electronic display of the area representation; and

means for providing in the electronic display a magnified representation of the highlighted portion outside the area representation.

47. The system of claim 46, comprising means for positioning the highlighted portion on the electronic display of the area representation.

48. The system of claim 47, wherein the means for positioning can continuously move the highlighted portion on the electronic display of the area representation.

49. The system of claim 46, comprising means for moving an image with respect to the area representation including through the highlighted portion and through the magnified representation of the highlighted portion, the image being represented magnified in the magnified portion as compared to the image moved with respect to the area representation.

50. A method for providing an animated electronic area representation of an area, comprising:

providing an electronic display of the area representation;

highlighting a minor portion of the electronic display of the area representation;

providing in the electronic display a magnified representation of the highlighted portion outside the area representation;

moving an image with respect to the area representation including through the highlighted portion and through the magnified representation of the highlighted portion, the image being represented magnified in the magnified portion as compared to the image moved with respect to the area representation.

51. The method of claim 50, comprising movably repositioning the highlighted portion on the electronic display of the area representation.

52. A computer readable medium or media including computer code that causes a computer to provide on a display device a display comprising:

an area representation of an area;

item information relating to one or more items associated with the area, the item information for different items being at different locations on the area representation, and

additional information relating to one or more items associated with the area;

the computer code causing a computer to position a position indicator on the area representation on the display device and provide, outside the area representation on the display device, a magnified representation of an area of the area representation indicated by the position indicator;

in response to user input to the computer that selects item information, the computer code causing the computer to reposition the position indicator on the area representation indicating the item information relating to the selected additional information and provide a magnified representation of the area of the area representation indicated by the repositioned position indicator outside the area representation.

53. The computer readable medium or media of claim 52, wherein the computer code causes the position indicator to indicate an area by highlighting that area.

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