Driving directions printed text scaling

• US 8,744,758 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2006
• Issued: 06/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Cubillo, Pedro Antonio
• Primary Examiner(s): Holwerda, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US11/612,687
• Publication Number:
  US 20080147314A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,723 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.1, 701/200, 701/201, 701/207, 701/208, 701/209, 701/400, 701/431, 701/440, 340/995.1, 340/995.11, 340/995.14, 340/995.15, 340/995.19, 345/418, 345/467, 345/468, 345/469.1, 345/471, 345/472, 358/1.1, 358/1.2, 358/1.15
• US Class Current: 701/440
• 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: 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: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

An exemplary system includes a driving directions subsystem configured to provide data representative of driving directions to an access device communicatively coupled to the driving directions subsystem. The driving directions subsystem is further configured to provide at least one print tool including a plurality of selectable map views to the access device, the print tool enabling a user of the access device to select, from the selectable map views, at least one map view for inclusion in a printing of at least a subset of the driving directions. In certain embodiments, the driving directions include textual driving direction steps, and the driving direction subsystem is configured to scale a font size of at least a subset of the textual driving direction steps based on a number of the textual driving direction steps included in the driving directions.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a driving directions subsystem configured to

provide data representative of driving directions to an access device communicatively coupled to said driving directions subsystem, and

provide at least one print tool including a plurality of selectable map views to the access device, said at least one print tool enabling a user of the access device to select, from the selectable map views, at least one map view-for inclusion in a printing of at least a subset of the driving directions, wherein the at least one print tool includes a plurality of selectable print options corresponding to different formats for printing at least a subset of the driving directions for the selected map view.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the selectable map views are configured for concurrent display in a graphical user interface presented by the access device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the selectable map views include different zoom level views of a geographic area.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one print tool is configured to visually indicate the selection of the at least one map view for inclusion in the printing.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said driving directions subsystem is further configured to provide a print selected map tool to the access device, said print selected map tool enabling the user of the access device to initiate the printing of the selected at least one map view.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the at least one selected map view includes multiple ones of the selectable map views.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the driving directions include textual driving direction steps, said driving direction subsystem being configured to scale a font size of at least a subset of the textual driving direction steps based on a number of the textual driving direction steps included in the driving directions.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein said driving direction subsystem is configured to apply a first font size when the number of textual driving direction steps is less than or equal to a predefined threshold and to apply a second font size when the number of textual driving direction steps is greater than the predefined threshold.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the driving directions include spaces between the textual driving direction steps, said driving direction subsystem being configured to scale a size of at least a subset of the spaces based on the number of the textual driving direction steps included in the driving directions.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the printing includes at least one of a hardcopy printing and an electronic displaying of the at least a subset of the driving directions.

22. The system of claim 1, wherein the print tool is configured to enable a user of the access device to select a ratio of a print area to be occupied by different components of the driving directions.

11. A system comprising:

a driving directions subsystem configured to provide data representative of driving directions to an access device communicatively coupled to said driving directions subsystem, the driving directions including textual driving direction steps, wherein a font size of at least a subset of the textual driving directions steps is scaled based on a number of the textual driving directions steps included in the driving directions; and

wherein said driving directions subsystem is configured to provide to the access device at least one print tool including a plurality of selectable print options corresponding to different formats for printing at least a subset of the driving directions.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein a first font size is applied to the at least a subset of the textual driving directions when the number of the textual driving direction steps is less than or equal to a predefined threshold and a second font size is applied to the at least a subset of the textual driving directions when the number of the textual driving direction steps is greater than the predefined threshold.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the driving directions include spaces between the textual driving direction steps, a size of at least a subset of the spaces being scaled based on the number of the textual driving direction steps included in the driving directions.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one print tool includes a plurality of selectable map views for concurrent display in a graphical user interface, said at least one print tool enabling a user of the access device to select, from the selectable map views, multiple ones of the selectable map views for inclusion in a printing of at least a subset of the driving directions.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the print tool is configured to enable a user of the access device to select a ratio of a print area to be occupied by different components of the driving directions.

16. A method comprising:

providing data representative of driving directions to an access device communicatively coupled to said driving directions subsystem; and

providing at least one print tool including a plurality of selectable map views to the access device, said at least one print enabling a user of the access device to select, from the selectable map views, at least one map view for inclusion in a printing of at least a subset of the driving directions, wherein said at least one print tool includes a plurality of selectable print options corresponding to different formats for printing at least a subset of the driving directions for the selected map view.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising the access device concurrently displaying the selectable map views in a graphical user interface, the selectable map views including different zoom level views of a geographic area.

18. The method of claim 16, the at least one selected map view including multiple ones of the selectable map views.

19. The method of claim 16, the driving directions including textual driving direction steps, and further comprising scaling a font size of at least a subset of the textual driving direction steps based on a number of the textual driving direction steps included in the driving directions.

20. The method of claim 19, said scaling including:

applying a first font size when the number of the textual driving direction steps is less than or equal to a predefined threshold; and

applying a second font size when the number of the textual driving direction steps is greater than the predefined threshold.

21. The method of claim 19, the driving directions including spaces between the textual driving direction steps, and further comprising scaling a size of at least a subset of the spaces based on the number of the textual driving direction steps included in the driving directions.

23. The system of claim 16, wherein the print tool is configured to enable a user of the access device to select a ratio of a print area to be occupied by different components of the driving directions.