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Systems and methods for collecting and providing map images

  • US 8,164,599 B1
  • Filed: 06/01/2011
  • Issued: 04/24/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • capturing an image of a map using a camera;

    associating the image with a geographic location;

    identifying, by a processor, an image of the Earth based on the geographic location;

    displaying the image of the map and the image of the Earth on a display of a client device such that the image of the map is proximate to the image of the Earth on the display;

    determining, by the processor, an orientation of the displayed image of the map with respect to the displayed image of the Earth based on information input into the client device by a user including the selection of a first set of corresponding locations between the image of the map and the image of the Earth and the selection of a second set of corresponding locations between the image of the map and the image of the Earth without requiring the user to visit multiple locations in the map image;

    generating, by the processor, an oriented map image based on the orientation;

    receiving information from a geographic positioning component of the client device;

    subsequent to determining the orientation and receiving the information from the geographic positioning component, refining the orientation of the oriented map image by using a set of images identified based on both the orientation and the information received from the geographic positioning component, without requiring the user to visit multiple locations in the map image;

    transmitting the oriented map image to a server; and

    transmitting the first set of corresponding locations and the second set of corresponding locations to the server.

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