Displaying location preview

• US 9,135,751 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2012
• Issued: 09/15/2015
• 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.
• Primary Examiner(s): NABI, REZA U
• Application Number:
  US13/632,107
• Publication Number:
  US 20130326384A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,080 Days
• Field of Search: 715/771
• 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 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 executable by at least one processing unit of a device, the application comprising sets of instructions for:

displaying a set of banners associated with a set of locations on a displayed map; and

upon selection of a selectable user interface (UI) item displayed on a particular banner associated with a particular location, displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) that overlaps the displayed map, the GUI comprising;

a first display area for displaying different types of media for the particular location;

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

a third display area for displaying a set of selectable UI items, each of which for display area to displaying a particular type of information in the second display area when selected, wherein the first, second and third display areas are non-overlapping.

2. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the different types of media comprises 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 3, wherein the view point rotates 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 building at the location.

7. The machine readable medium of claim 2, wherein the animated image comprises a set of images that are displayed in the first display area in a sequential manner using a Ken Burns effect.

8. The machine readable medium of claim 1, wherein the set of instructions for displaying the GUI that overlaps the displayed map comprises a set of instructions for displaying the GUI that completely overlaps the displayed map.

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 10, wherein the third display area that displays the set of selectable UI items is not displaceable.

12. A method for defining a mapping application that displays information about a location resulted from running a search for the location, the method comprising:

displaying a set of banners associated with a set of locations on a displayed map; and

upon selection of a selectable user interface (UI) item displayed on a particular banner associated with a particular location, displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) that overlaps the displayed map, in the GUI;

defining a first display area for displaying different types of media for the particular location;

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

defining a third display area for displaying a set of selectable UI items, each of which for causing the second display area to display a particular type of information when selected, wherein the first, second and third display areas are non-overlapping.

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

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

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the GUI partially overlaps the displayed map.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the different types of media comprises 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 particular location from a view point that is directly above the location and rotates about the particular location.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the second display area is for displaying the image rather than the animated image of the particular location when the image is more informational than the animated image.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the particular location is a place of business, wherein the animated image shows the place of business from a view point that is circling the particular location from above the particular location.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the image comprises an image from an interior setting of the place of business.

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

22. The method of claim 12, wherein the second display area comprises 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 23 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 and navigation application executable by at least one processing unit of a device, the mapping and navigation application comprising sets of instructions for:

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

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

displaying a banner for each location indicator on the map, the banner comprising;

a first user interface (UI) item for initiating a navigation presentation from a current location of the device to the place, wherein the navigation presentation presents turn-by-turn navigation instructions as the device passes different navigation points along a navigated route from the current location of the device to the place; and

a second UI item for displaying additional information about the place in a graphical user interface (GUI) that overlaps the displayed map, the GUI comprising three non-overlapping display areas for displaying the additional information that comprise at least different types of media and different types of information about the place.

26. The machine readable medium of claim 25, wherein the banner further comprises a rating for the place and a name of the place.

27. The machine readable medium of claim 25, wherein the GUI partially overlaps the displayed map.

28. The machine readable medium of claim 25, wherein the three non-overlapping display areas comprise:

a first display area for displaying different types of media about the place;

a second display area for displaying different types of information about the place; and

a third display area for displaying a set of selectable UI items, each of which for displaying a particular type of information in the second display area when selected.