Visually-oriented driving directions in digital mapping system
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1. A computer implemented method for generating visually-oriented driving directions, comprising:
- constructing a mapping between business listings and at least one of satellite images and storefront images of a target map area;
analyzing the at least one of satellite images and storefront images to identify waypoints;
evaluating distinctiveness of the identified waypoints, thereby providing a number of scored waypoints; and
incorporating one or more of the scored waypoints into requested driving directions.
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Abstract
Digital mapping techniques are disclosed that provide visually-oriented information to the user, such as driving directions that include visual data points along the way of the driving route, thereby improving the user experience. The user may preview the route associated with the driving directions, where the preview is based on, for example, at least one of satellite images, storefront images, and heuristics and/or business listings.
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1. A computer implemented method for generating visually-oriented driving directions, comprising:
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constructing a mapping between business listings and at least one of satellite images and storefront images of a target map area;
analyzing the at least one of satellite images and storefront images to identify waypoints;
evaluating distinctiveness of the identified waypoints, thereby providing a number of scored waypoints; and
incorporating one or more of the scored waypoints into requested driving directions. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A computer implemented method for generating visually-oriented driving directions, comprising:
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constructing a mapping between business listings and at least one of satellite images and storefront images of a target map area;
analyzing the at least one of satellite images and storefront images to identify waypoints;
applying OCR to storefront images to identify waypoints;
performing visual recognition of chain stores using the at least one of satellite images and storefront images to identify waypoints;
performing non-visual recognition of chain stores using at least one of heuristics and business listings to identify waypoints;
evaluating distinctiveness of the identified waypoints, thereby providing a number of scored waypoints;
storing the scored waypoints; and
incorporating one or more of the scored waypoints into requested driving directions. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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17. A computer implemented method for generating visually-oriented driving directions, comprising:
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constructing a mapping between business listings and at least one of satellite images and storefront images of a target map area;
analyzing the at least one of satellite images and storefront images to identify waypoints;
evaluating distinctiveness of the identified waypoints, thereby providing a number of scored waypoints; and
storing the scored waypoints for subsequent use in computer-generated driving directions. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A computer implemented method for generating visually-oriented driving directions, comprising:
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identifying distinctive waypoints associated with an area covered by a digital mapping system, wherein the waypoints are visual data points along one or more driving routes and are in addition to road names and road topology; and
incorporating one or more of the distinctive waypoints into computer-generated driving directions produced by the digital mapping system in response to a user request, thereby providing visually-oriented driving directions. - View Dependent Claims (27)
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