MAPPING APPLICATION WITH 3D PRESENTATION

• US 20170052672A1
• Filed: 05/23/2016
• Published: 02/23/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Forstall, Scott, Moore, Bradford A., van Os, Marcel, Blumenberg, Christopher, Vulcano, Emanuele, Law, Brady A., Piemonte, Patrick S., Ball, Matthew B.
• Application Number:
  US15/162,576
• Publication Number:
  US 20170052672A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 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: 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: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0259 based on store location
• 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: G09B 29/007 : using computer methods
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/10 : Map spot or coordinate position indicators; Map reading aids optical projection apparatus per se G03B
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 : using electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 : in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A device that includes at least one processing unit and stores a multi-mode mapping program for execution by the at least one processing unit is described. The program includes a user interface (UI). The UI includes a display area for displaying a two-dimensional (2D) presentation of a map or a three-dimensional (3D) presentation of the map. The UI includes a selectable 3D control for directing the program to transition between the 2D and 3D presentations.

Claims

1-36. -36. (canceled)

37. A machine readable medium storing a mapping application for execution by at least one processing unit of a device, the device comprising a touch-sensitive screen and a touch input interface, the program comprising sets of instructions for:

displaying an identifier associated with a location on a displayed map resulting from a search, wherein the identifier comprises (i) information about the associated location and (ii) a selectable user interface (UI) item for presenting an information display area for displaying information about the associated location; and

upon selection of the selectable UI item of the identifier, presenting the information display area comprising;

a first display area for displaying different types of graphical media for the associated location; and

a second display area for displaying additional information for the associated location.

38. The machine readable medium of claim 37, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for receiving a search query for the search through a search tool of the map application.

39. The machine readable medium of claim 37, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for displaying a set of selectable search results on the displayed map based on the search, wherein the identifier is displayed in response to a selection of a selectable search result for the associated location on the displayed map.

40. The machine readable medium of claim 37, wherein the identifier is a first identifier, the program further comprising a set of instructions for displaying a second identifier concurrently with the first identifier, each identifier including a selectable UI item for presenting a different information display area comprising at least one of different graphical media and different additional information.

41. The machine readable medium of claim 39, wherein the identifier associated with the selected search result includes a name for the selected search result.

42. The machine readable medium of claim 37, wherein the information display area completely overlaps the displayed map.

43. The machine readable medium of claim 37, wherein the information display area partially overlaps the displayed map.

44. The machine readable medium of claim 37, wherein the information display area further comprises a set of selectable items, each of which is for displaying a particular type of additional information in the second display area.

45. The machine readable medium of claim 37, wherein the first display area of an information display area for another location of the map is for displaying different graphical media for the other location on the map.

46. The machine readable medium of claim 37, wherein the first display area is further for displaying different sets of graphical media for the location.

47. The machine readable medium of claim 37, wherein the additional information includes at least one of general information about, a review of, and an image of a business entity at the particular location.

48. The machine readable medium of claim 37,

wherein the second display area includes a selectable item for launching a third-party application other than the mapping application,

wherein the third-party application is for entering a review about a business entity at the particular location.

49. A device comprising:

at least one processing unit;

a touch-sensitive screen;

a touch input interface; and

a machine readable medium storing a mapping application for execution by the at least one processing unit, the program comprising sets of instructions for;

displaying an identifier associated with a location on a displayed map resulting from a search, wherein the identifier comprises (i) information about the associated location and (ii) a selectable user interface (UI) item for presenting an information display area for displaying information about the associated location; and

upon selection of the selectable UI item of the identifier, presenting the information display area comprising;

a first display area for displaying different types of graphical media for the associated location; and

a second display area for displaying additional information for the associated location.

50. The device of claim 49, wherein the program further comprises a set of instructions for displaying a set of selectable search results on the displayed map based on the search, wherein the identifier is displayed in response to a selection of a selectable search result for the associated location on the displayed map.

51. The device of claim 49, wherein the identifier is a first identifier, the program further comprising a set of instructions for displaying a second identifier concurrently with the first identifier, each identifier including a selectable UI item for presenting a different information display area comprising at least one of different graphical media and different additional information.

52. The device of claim 50, wherein the identifier associated with the selected search result includes a name for the selected search result.

53. The device of claim 49, wherein the graphical media comprises at least one of a video clip and a slide show generated from one or more images.

54. The device of claim 53, wherein the images in the slide show are generated from one image and are sequentially displayed using a Ken Burns effect.

55. The device of claim 53, wherein the video clip shows the associated location from a viewpoint that circles above the location.

56. The device of claim 53, wherein at least one image is of an interior of a business entity at the location.