Image mapping to provide visual geographic path

• US 8,077,928 B2
• Filed: 07/12/2010
• Issued: 12/13/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Location Based Services, LLC (Leigh M. Rothschild)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Jung, Edward K. Y., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, John D. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): AZARIAN, SEYED H
• Application Number:
  US12/804,021
• Publication Number:
  US 20110044511A1
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• Field of Search: 382/100, 382/103, 382/104, 382/106, 382/113, 382/114, 382/155, 382/168, 382/180, 382/181, 382/184, 382/189, 382/216, 382/232, 382/255, 382/274, 382/276, 382/291, 382/305, 382/284, 707/101, 707/209, 707/200, 707/201, 379/201.03, 345/8, 345/619
• US Class Current: 382/113
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

Provided is a computer system and method for mapping a visual path. The method includes receiving one or more images included in a predefined area; receiving one or more parameters associated with the image; and integrating the images and parameters into a map of the predefined area to enable mapping the visual path through the predefined area in response to one or more input path parameters.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable medium bearing

one or more instructions for transmitting a request for the mapped visual path, the request including one or more input path parameters associated with the mapped visual path; and

one or more instructions for receiving from a processing device a mapped visual path, the mapped visual path including one or more images of a predefined area identified by the one or more input path parameters, the mapped visual path being an integration of the one or more images and the one or more input path parameters, the one or more images including an image history of the predefined area captured by a public camera in the predefined area;

one or more instructions for transmitting an identifier associated with an object on the one or more images, the identifier indicative of an action to be taken with respect to the object, wherein the object includes at least one person, the action including highlighting a location of the at least one person to enable tracking of the at least one person on the mapped visual path; and

one or more instructions for receiving from the processing device a periodically updated mapped visual path according to a time parameter and a location of a user of a mobile device in response to the mobile device transmitting the request for the mapped visual path.

2. The computer program product of claim 1 further comprising:

one or more instructions for sequentially displaying the mapped visual path of the one or more images according to a time parameter.

3. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the one or more instructions for transmitting a request for the mapped visual path;

the request including one or more input path parameters associated with the mapped visual path includes;

one or more instructions for transmitting a location parameter as one of the one or more input path parameters;

one or more instructions for transmitting a time parameter as one of the one or more input path parameters, the time parameter identifying a periodicity for the one or more images; and

one or more instructions for transmitting an identification of a user of the mobile device as one or the one or more input path parameters.

4. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the one or more instructions for receiving from a processing device a mapped visual path, the mapped visual path including one or more images of a predefined area identified by the one or more input path parameters, the mapped visual path being an integration of the one or more images and the one or more input path parameters includes one or more instructions for receiving the mapped visual path, the mapped visual path including an integration of an image history taken from one or more public cameras and/or one or more private cameras and the one or more input path parameters.

5. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the one or more instructions for receiving from a processing device a mapped visual path, the mapped visual path including one or more images of a predefined area identified by the one or more input path parameters, the mapped visual path being an integration of the one or more images and the one or more input path parameters includes:

one or more instructions for connecting to a server operably couplable to a mobile device to wirelessly receive the one or more images.

6. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the one or more instructions for receiving from a processing device a mapped visual path, the mapped visual path including one or more images of a predefined area identified by the one or more input path parameters, the mapped visual path being an integration of the one or more images and the one or more input path parameters includes:

one or more instructions for displaying the mapped visual path, the mapped visual path including the one or more images after a stitching operation is performed on the one or more images.

7. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the one or more instructions for receiving from a processing device a mapped visual path, the mapped visual path including one or more images of a predefined area identified by the one or more input path parameters, the mapped visual path being an integration of the one or more images and the one or more input path parameters includes:

one or more instructions for displaying the mapped visual path, the mapped visual path being scrollable with respect to the predefined area.