Systems and Methods to Record and Present a Trip

• US 20100035631A1
• Filed: 08/07/2008
• Published: 02/11/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MiTAC International Corporation (MiTAC Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Magellan Navigation Incorporated (MiTAC Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Pedersen, Stig, Perezhogin, Oleg, Doucette, Justin
• Application Number:
  US12/188,139
• Publication Number:
  US 20100035631A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/14 specially adapted for specific applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability

Abstract

A method, machine-readable medium and apparatus for determining a sequence of locations; generating one or more objects, each of the one or more objects being at least partially generated at one or more corresponding locations in the sequence of locations; and associating each of the objects with at least one of the one or more corresponding locations in the sequence of locations.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

determining a sequence of locations;

generating objects of different multimedia types, each of the objects being at least partially generated at one or more corresponding locations in the sequence of locations; and

associating each of the objects with at least one of the one or more corresponding locations in the sequence of locations.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the sequence of locations is determined using at least one of a global positioning device and a long range navigation device.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the sequence of locations track the movement of a positioning device over a period of time.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the objects comprises an image, generating the object comprising generating the image.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the objects comprises a video, generating the object comprising generating the video.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the objects comprises audio, generating the object comprising generating the audio.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein at least one of the objects comprises text, generating the object comprising generating the text.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising generating a trip object comprising the sequence of locations, one or more captured objects, and associations between the one or more captured objects and the sequence of locations.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising associating the sequence of locations with a trip.

10. The method of claim 1 further comprising presenting a map having markers corresponding to one or more locations in the sequence of locations and a representation of at least one of the objects associated with the one or more locations in the sequence of locations.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the representation of at least one of the objects comprises an icon, the method further comprising presenting an alternate representation of the at least one object in response to the user selecting the icon.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the alternate representation comprises at least one of an image, video, audio, and text.

13. A machine-readable medium that provides instructions for a processor, which when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

determining a sequence of locations;

generating one or more objects, each of the one or more objects being at least partially generated at one or more corresponding locations in the sequence of locations; and

associating each of the objects with at least one of the one or more corresponding locations in the sequence of locations.

14. The machine-readable medium of claim 13 wherein the sequence of locations is determined using at least one of a global positioning device and a long range navigation device.

15. The machine-readable medium of claim 13 wherein the sequence of locations track the movement of a positioning device over a period of time.

16. The machine-readable medium of claim 13 wherein at least one of the objects comprises an image, generating the object comprising generating the image.

17. The machine-readable medium of claim 13 wherein at least one of the objects comprises a video, generating the object comprising generating the video.

18. The machine-readable medium of claim 13 wherein at least one of the objects comprises audio, generating the object comprising generating the audio.

19. The machine-readable medium of claim 13 wherein at least one of the objects comprises text, generating the object comprising generating the text.

20. The machine-readable medium of claim 13 further comprising generating a trip object comprising the sequence of locations, one or more captured objects, and associations between the one or more captured objects and the sequence of locations.