Mapping application with transit mode

• US 9,702,724 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2015
• Issued: 07/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: O'Beirne, Justin, Wachsman, Eleanor Cady, Kelso, Nathaniel V., Reiner, Aaron A.
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, TAN QUANG
• Application Number:
  US14/871,403
• Publication Number:
  US 20160356625A1
• Time in Patent Office: 650 Days
• Field of Search: 701432, 701454, 715771, 715753
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/32 Structuring or formatting of map data
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3423 Multimodal routing, i.e. combining two or more modes of transportation, where the modes can be any of, e.g. driving, walking, cycling, public transport
• 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 21/3676 Overview of the route on the road map
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3811 Point data, e.g. Point of Interest [POI]
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3867 Geometry of map features, e.g. shape points, polygons or for simplified maps
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3881 Tile-based structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/001 Texturing; Colouring; Generation of texture or colour inpainting G06T5/77
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/008 Touring maps or guides to public transport networks

Abstract

Some embodiments provide a mapping application that displays a transit map including a group of transit lines. The mapping application receives a request to display a transit route in the transit map. The mapping application also, in response to the received request, displays the transit route by modifying portions of transit lines along the route to emphasize the portions of the transit lines while modifying other transit lines not along the route to de-emphasize the transit lines not along the route.

Claims

1. For a mapping application, a method comprising:

receiving a request for a transit route from a starting location to a destination location in a map region;

in response to the received request, (i) identifying a plurality of transit lines in the map region and (ii) identifying portions of a subset of the plurality of transit lines that are along the transit route; and

displaying the transit route in the map region such that the identified portions of the subset of transit lines are emphasized more, while other portions of the subset of transit lines that are not along the transit route as well as other transit lines in the plurality of transit lines are de-emphasized.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transit lines are displayed in different colors that correspond to colors used by transit system providers that operate the transit lines.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the other transit lines are de-emphasized by reducing color saturations of the other transit lines.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the identified portions of the subset of the transit lines are emphasized more by increasing at least one of size and color saturation of the portions of the subset of transit lines that are along the transit route.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the map region comprises a set of other map constructs in addition to the transit lines, wherein the set of other map constructs is also de-emphasized in the displayed map region by reducing color saturations of the other map constructs.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a request to enter a navigation mode for the displayed transit route; and

entering a navigation mode of the mapping application that emphasizes a location of a mobile device on which the mapping application operates and a current transit line of the transit route.

7. The method of claim 6 further comprising modifying a traveled section of the current transit line as a location of the mobile device moves along the transit route in order to differentiate the traveled section from an untraveled section of the current transit line.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein entering the navigation mode comprises displaying a walking portion of the transit route for guiding a user from a current location of the mobile device to the current transit line of the transit route.

9. A non-transitory machine-readable medium storing a mapping application for execution by at least one processing unit of a mobile device, the mapping application comprising:

receiving a request for a transit route from a starting location to a destination location in a map region;

in response to the received request, (i) identifying a plurality of transit lines in the map region and (ii) identifying portions of a subset of the plurality of transit lines that are along the transit route; and

displaying the transit route in the map region such that the identified portions of the subset of transit lines are emphasized more, while other portions of the subset of transit lines that are not along the transit route as well as other transit lines in the plurality of transit lines are de-emphasized.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the transit lines are displayed in different colors that correspond to colors used by transit system providers that operate the transit lines.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the set of instructions for displaying the transit route comprises a set of instructions for de-emphasizing the other transit lines by reducing color saturations of the other transit lines.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the set of instructions for displaying the transit route comprises a set of instructions for emphasizing the identified portions of the subset of the transit lines by increasing at least one of size and color saturation of the portions of the subset of transit lines that are along the transit route.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the map region comprises a set of other map constructs in addition to the transit lines, wherein the set of instructions for displaying the transit route further comprises a set of instructions for de-emphasizing the set of other map constructs by reducing color saturations of the other map constructs.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the mapping application further comprises sets of instructions for:

receiving a request to enter a navigation mode for the displayed transit route; and

entering a navigation mode of the mapping application that emphasizes a location of the mobile device on which the mapping application operates and a current transit line of the transit route.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the mapping application further comprises a set of instructions for modifying a traveled section of the current transit line as a location of the mobile device moves along the transit route in order to differentiate the traveled section from an untraveled section of the current transit line.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the set of instructions for entering the navigation mode comprises a set of instructions for displaying a walking portion of the transit route for guiding a user from a current location of the mobile device to the current transit line of the transit route.

17. A mobile device comprising:

a set of processing units; and

a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing a mapping application for execution by at least one of the processing units, the mapping application comprising;

receiving a request for a transit route from a starting location to a destination location in a map region;

in response to the received request, (i) identifying a plurality of transit lines in the map region and (ii) identifying portions of a subset of the plurality of transit lines that are along the transit route; and

displaying the transit route in the map region such that the identified portions of the subset of transit lines are emphasized more, while other portions of the subset of transit lines that are not along the transit route as well as other transit lines in the plurality of transit lines are de-emphasized.

18. The mobile device of claim 17, wherein the transit lines are displayed in different colors that correspond to colors used by transit system providers that operate the transit lines.

19. The mobile device of claim 18, wherein the set of instructions for displaying the transit route comprises a set of instructions for de-emphasizing the other transit lines by reducing color saturations of the other transit lines.

20. The mobile device of claim 19, wherein the set of instructions for displaying the transit route comprises a set of instructions for emphasizing the identified portions of the subset of the transit lines by increasing at least one of size and color saturation of the portions of the subset of transit lines that are along the transit route.