NAVIGATION QUERIES

• US 20160370200A1
• Filed: 08/31/2016
• Published: 12/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: LeBeau, Michael J., CaveLie, Ole, Ito, Keith, Jitkoff, John Nicholas
• Granted Patent: US 10,578,450 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/265 constructional aspects of navigation devices, e.g. housings, mountings, displays G01C21/3688 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3608 using speech input, e.g. using speech recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/362 received from an external device or application, e.g. PDA, mobile phone or calendar application
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3661 Guidance output on an external device, e.g. car radio
• 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: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/266 Arrangements to supply power to external peripherals either directly from the computer or under computer control, e.g. supply of power through the communication port, computer controlled power-strips
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/329 by task scheduling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/444 Spatial browsing, e.g. 2D maps, 3D or virtual spaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/638 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/74 : with voice recognition means voice activated dialling H04M1/271; voice recognition algorithms G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 : Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

A computer-implemented method includes receiving at a computer server system, from a computing device that is remote from the server system, a string of text that comprises a search query. The method also includes identifying one or more search results that are responsive to the search query, parsing a document that is a target of one of the one or more results, identifying geographical address information from the parsing, generating a specific geographical indicator corresponding to the one search result, and transmitting for use by the computing device, data for automatically generating a navigational application having a destination at the specific geographical indicator.

Claims

1. (canceled)

2. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a voice query including one or more navigation-related terms and one or more other terms that refer to, but do not uniquely identify, a particular location;

in response to receiving the voice query including the one or more navigation-related terms and the one or more other terms, receiving navigational data associated with the particular location; and

automatically launching a navigational application that is other than a web browser, using the navigational data that is associated with the particular location.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein, in response to automatically launching a navigational application, the method further includes automatically generating a navigational display including image data associated with a navigation route, wherein the image data comprises one of map tile images, digital photographic images, satellite images, and plane-view images.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the image data includes one or more image types, and the method further includes displaying a first image type for a first portion of the navigation route and displaying a second image type for a second portion of the navigation route.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the image data includes one or more image types and, wherein the navigation route defines a start-point and an end-point, and the navigational display transitions from a first image type to a second image type as a user travels along the navigation route.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the navigational display transitions from the first image type to the second image type when the user is within a threshold distance of the end-point.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the navigational display is viewable on a computing device, and wherein the method further includes, sensing a motion of the computing device such that the navigational display transitions from the first image type to the second image type when the computing device at least one of moves along the navigation route above a threshold speed and moves along the navigation route below a threshold speed.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the digital photographic images include street-level images that are at least partially consistent with one or more views of an environment of a current location of the user, and wherein the navigational display is periodically refreshed to display the street-level images as the user travels along the navigation route.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 3, wherein the navigational display is automatically generated at a computing device based, at least in part, on data provided by a computing server that is remote from the computing device.

10. A system comprising:

one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising;

receiving a voice query including one or more navigation-related terms and one or more other terms that refer to, but do not uniquely identify, a particular location;

in response to receiving the voice query including the one or more navigation-related terms and the one or more other terms, receiving navigational data associated with the particular location; and

automatically launching, a navigational application that is other than a web browser, using the navigational data that is associated with the particular location.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein, in response to automatically launching a navigational application, the method further includes automatically generating a navigational display including image data associated with a navigation route, wherein the image data comprises one of map tile images, digital photographic images, satellite images, and plane-view images.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the image data includes one or more image types and, wherein the navigation route defines a start-point and an end-point, and wherein the navigational display transitions from a first image type to a second image type as a user travels along the navigation route.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the navigational display transitions from the first image type to the second image type when the user is within a threshold distance of the end-point.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the navigational display is viewable on a computing device, and wherein the method further includes, sensing a motion of the computing device such that the navigational display transitions from the first image type to the second image type when the computing device at least one of moves along the navigation route above a threshold speed and moves along the navigation route below a threshold speed.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the digital photographic images include street-level images that are at least partially consistent with one or more views of an environment of a current location of the user, and wherein the navigational display is periodically refreshed to display the street-level images as the user travels along the navigation route.

16. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

receiving a voice query including one or more navigation-related terms and one or more other terms that refer to, but do not uniquely identify, a particular location;

in response to receiving the voice query including the one or more navigation-related terms and the one or more other terms, receiving navigational data associated with the particular location; and

automatically launching a navigational application that is other than a web browser, using the navigational data that is associated with the particular location.