VISUALIZATION OF ADDRESSES

• US 20160092068A1
• Filed: 09/30/2014
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chang, Billy W., Rakshit, Sarbajit K.
• Application Number:
  US14/501,567
• Publication Number:
  US 20160092068A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/206 specially adapted for indoor navigation
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3647 Guidance involving output of stored or live camera images or video streams
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2455 Query execution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 17/05 Geographic models
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

Provided are techniques for visualization of addresses. Search criteria for an entity is received. One or more addresses for the entity are identified based on the search criteria. For each of the one or more addresses, a floor associated with the entity at that address is identified, related information for the floor that includes photographs of views seen from that floor are identified, and, on a 2-dimensional (2-D) electronic map, a 3-dimensional (3-D) structure that indicates the floor and provides access to the related information is plotted.

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. A computer program product, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by at least one processor to perform:

receiving, by the at least one processor, search criteria for an entity;

identifying, by the at least one processor, one or more addresses for the entity based on the search criteria;

for each of the one or more addresses,

identifying, by the at least one processor, a floor associated with the entity at that address;

identifying, by the at least one processor, related information for the floor that includes photographs of views seen from that floor; and

plotting, by the at least one processor, on a 2-dimensional (2-D) electronic map, a 3-dimensional (3-D) structure that indicates the floor and provides access to the related information.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the program code is executable by the at least one processor to perform:

for a particular address,

determining, by the at least one processor, a height based on the floor at that particular address;

searching, by the at least one processor, photograph metadata for the photographs captured from that height at the particular address; and

storing, by the at least one processor, the photographs as related information for the floor at that particular address.

9. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the program code is executable by the at least one processor to perform:

identifying, by the at least one processor, the related information for the floor using a social networking site.

10. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the search criteria indicates a range of floors for the address location.

11. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the program code is executable by the at least one processor to perform:

receiving, by the at least one processor, a request for the related information for a 3-D structure displayed in the 2-D electronic map; and

in response to receiving the request, providing the related information.

12. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein identifying the floor includes performing another search.

13. A computer system, comprising:

one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories and one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices; and

program instructions, stored on at least one of the one or more computer-readable, tangible storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, to perform operations, the operations comprising;

receiving search criteria for an entity;

identifying one or more addresses for the entity based on the search criteria;

for each of the one or more addresses,

identifying a floor associated with the entity at that address;

identifying related information for the floor that includes photographs of views seen from that floor; and

plotting, on a 2-dimensional (2-D) electronic map, a 3-dimensional (3-D) structure that indicates the floor and provides access to the related information.

14. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

for a particular address,

determining a height based on the floor at that particular address;

searching photograph metadata for the photographs captured from that height at the particular address; and

storing the photographs as related information for the floor at that particular address.

15. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

identifying the related information for the floor using a social networking site.

16. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the search criteria indicates a range of floors for the address location.

17. The computer system of claim 13, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a request for the related information for a 3-D structure displayed in the 2-D electronic map; and

in response to receiving the request, providing the related information.

18. The computer system of claim 13, wherein identifying the floor includes performing another search.