DISPLAYING LOCATION PREVIEW

• US 20130326384A1
• Filed: 09/30/2012
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Moore, Bradford A., van Os, Marcel, Koch, Jonathan, Wong, Chun Kin Minor, Richard, Chad C.
• Granted Patent: US 9,135,751 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/771
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3626 Details of the output of route guidance instructions traffic control systems for road vehicles involving transmission of navigation instructions to the vehicle G08G1/0968
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3638 including 3D objects and buildings three dimensional [3D] modelling, e.g. data description of 3D objects G06T17/00; geographic models G06T17/05
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures
• 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: G01C 21/3878 Hierarchical structures, e.g. layering
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3881 Tile-based structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 17/05 Geographic models
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/00 Manipulating 3D models or images for computer graphics
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/003 Navigation within 3D models or images
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/00 Maps; Plans; Charts; Diagrams, e.g. route diagram star maps G09B27/04; devices for holding or supporting maps A47B97/02; for computing purposes G06G1/14, G09B1/16; display boards G09F
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A mapping application that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying information about a location is described. The GUI includes a first display area for displaying different types of media for a selected location on a map. The GUI includes a second display area for displaying different types of information of the selected location. The GUI includes a set of selectable user interface (UI) items, each of which for causing the second display area to display a particular type of information when selected.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a mapping application which when executed by at least one processing unit of a device provides a graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying information about a location, the GUI comprising:

a first display area for displaying different types of media for a selected location on a map;

a second display area for displaying different types of information of the selected location; and

a set of selectable user interface (UI) items, each of which for causing the second display area to display a particular type of information when selected.

2. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the different types of media include at least one of a video clip, an image, and an animated image.

3. The machine readable medium of claim 2, wherein the video clip shows the location from a view point that is directly above the location.

4. The machine readable medium of claim 2, wherein the view point is rotating about the location.

5. The machine readable medium of claim 2, wherein the video clip shows the location from a view point that is circling the location from above the location.

6. The machine readable medium of claim 2, wherein the image is of an interior of a place at the location.

7. The machine readable medium of claim 2, wherein an animated image comprises a set of images.

8. The machine readable medium of claim 7, wherein the set of images are displayed in the first display area in a sequential manner using a Ken Burns effect.

9. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the second display area is scrollable.

10. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the second display area is expandable to displace the first display area.

11. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the set of selectable UI items are not displaceable.

12. A method for defining a mapping application for displaying information about a location resulted from running a search on a map, said mapping application comprising a graphical user interface (GUI), the method comprising:

in the GUI;

defining a first display area for displaying different types of media for a selected location on a map;

defining a second display area for displaying different types of information of the selected location; and

defining a third display area for displaying a set of selectable user interface (UI) items, each of which for causing the second display area to display a particular type of information when selected.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the first display area is further for displaying a name of the selected location.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the first display area is further for displaying a rating of the selected location.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the rating is a star rating.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the different types of media include at least one of a video clip, an image, and an animated image.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the animated image shows the location from a view point that is directly above the location.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the animated image is rotating about the location.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the animated image shows the location from a view point that is circling the location from above the location.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the animated image comprises a set of images.

21. The method of claim 12, wherein the different types of information include at least one of general information, a review, and an image.

22. The method of claim 12, wherein the second display area includes a selectable UI item for launching a third-party application other than the mapping application, wherein the third-party application is for entering a review about the selected location.

23. The method of claim 12 further comprising defining a set of operations for obtaining authentication information from a third-party application other than the mapping application, wherein the authentication information allows the mapping application to access a server providing a service to the third-party application.

24. The method of claim 12 further comprising defining a set of operations for retrieving a customized view of a review of the location from the server.

25. A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a mapping application for displaying a map, the mapping application comprising sets of instructions for:

displaying a map on a display area of the mapping application;

displaying a location indicator for each place in a set of places that are search results of running a search;

displaying a banner for each location indicator on the map; and

in the banner, displaying a set of user interface items including;

a first UI item for initiating a navigation from a current location to the place; and

a second UI item for displaying information about the place.

26. The machine readable medium of claim 25, the mapping application further comprises a set of instructions for displaying in the banner a rating of the place.

27. The machine readable medium of claim 26, wherein the rating is a star rating.

28. The machine readable medium of claim 25, the mapping application further comprises a set of instructions for displaying in the banner a name of the place.