Multiple views of a geographic area on a mobile device

• US 9,880,699 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2012
• Issued: 01/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Bliss, Adam, Crady, Mark, Chu, Michael, Jenson, Scott, Mavinkurve, Sanjay, Sacks, Joshua J., Morrison, Jerry
• Primary Examiner(s): Gorney, Boris
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Loan T
• Application Number:
  US13/601,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20120329519A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,978 Days
• 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: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0206 Portable telephones comprising a plurality of mechanically joined movable body parts, e.g. hinged housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location

Abstract

A computer-implemented method is disclosed that includes receiving on a mobile device a search query associated with a geographic location, providing one or more search results in response to the search query, the search results each being associated with a geographic location, and presenting on a graphical display of the computing device icons corresponding to each search result and also corresponding to a key on the computing device.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

displaying, by a computing system, a presentation of a particular geographic area as a presentation of a map view of the particular geographic area;

receiving, by the computing system and during the presentation of the map view of the particular geographic area, an indication of a user input to select a first user interface element;

displaying, by the computing system and as a result of having received the indication of the user input to select the first user interface element, a second user interface element that is configured to enable toggling from the presentation of the map view of the particular geographic area to a presentation of an overhead image view of the particular geographic area, wherein displaying the second user interface element as a result of having received the indication of the user input to select the first user interface element includes displaying the second user interface element in a menu of user interface elements that the computing system displays in response to having received the indication of the user input to select the first user interface element;

receiving, by the computing system, an indication of a user input to select the second user interface element; and

toggling, by the computing system as a result of having received the indication of the user input to select the second user interface element, the presentation of the map view of the particular geographic area to the presentation of the overhead image view of the particular geographic area;

receiving, by the computing system and during the presentation of the overhead image view of the particular geographic area, an indication of another user input to select the first user interface element; and

displaying, by the computing system as a result of receiving the indication of the another user input to select the first user interface element, the menu of user interface elements with the display of the second user interface element in the collection having changed from (i) presenting an indication that selection of the second user interface element toggles the presentation of the geographic area to the overhead image view, to (ii) presenting an indication that selection of the second user interface element toggles the presentation of the geographic area to the map view.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein each of the user interface elements in the menu of user interface elements other than the second user interface element remains the same as a result of (i) receiving the indication of the user input to select the first user interface element, and (ii) receiving the indication of the another user input to select the first user interface element.

3. A computer-implemented method comprising:

displaying, by a computing system, a presentation of a particular geographic area as a presentation of a map view of the particular geographic area at a particular zoom level;

receiving, by the computing system and during the presentation of the map view of the particular geographic area at the particular zoom level, an indication of first user input to select a first user interface element that was displayed concurrent with the presentation of the map view of the particular geographic area at the particular zoom level;

displaying, by the computing system and as a result of having received the indication of the first user input to select the first user interface element, a second user interface element concurrent with the presentation of the map view of the particular geographic area at the particular zoom level, the second user interface element being configured to enable toggling from the presentation of the map view of the particular geographic area at the particular zoom level to a presentation of a satellite image view of the particular geographic area at the particular zoom level;

receiving, by the computing system, an indication of second user input to select the second user interface element, and as a result;

(i) removing the display of the second user interface element,

(ii) displaying the first user interface element, and

(iii) toggling the presentation of the map view of the particular geographic area at the particular zoom level to a presentation of the satellite image view of the particular geographic area at the particular zoom level;

receiving, by the computing system and during the presentation of the satellite image view of the particular geographic area at the particular zoom level, an indication of third user input to select the first user interface element which is displayed concurrent with the presentation of the satellite image view of the particular geographic area at the particular zoom level;

displaying, by the computing system and as a result having received the indication of the third user input to select the first user interface element, a third user interface element concurrent with the presentation of the satellite image view of the particular geographic area at the particular zoom level, the third user interface element being configured to enable toggling from the presentation of the satellite image view of the particular geographic area at the particular zoom level to the presentation of the map view of the particular geographic area at the particular zoom level; and

receiving, by the computing system, an indication of a fourth user input to select the third user interface element, and as a result;

(i) removing the display of the third user interface element,

(ii) displaying the first user interface element, and

(iii) toggling the presentation of the satellite image view of the particular geographic area at the particular zoom level to the presentation of the map view of the particular geographic area at the particular zoom level.

4. A computer-readable storage device including instructions that, when executed by a programmable processor, cause performance of operations that comprise:

receiving, by the computing system and during the presentation of the map view of the particular geographic area, an indication of a user input to select a first user interface element;

displaying, by the computing system and as a result of having received the indication of the user input to select the first user interface element, a second user interface element that is configured to enable toggling from the presentation of the map view of the particular geographic area to a presentation of an overhead image view of the particular geographic area, wherein displaying the second user interface element as a result of having received the indication of the user input to select the first user interface element includes displaying the second user interface element in a menu of user interface elements that the computing system displays in response to having received the indication of the user input to select the first user interface element;

receiving, by the computing system, an indication of a user input to select the second user interface element;

toggling, by the computing system as a result of having received the indication of the user input to select the second user interface element, the presentation of the map view of the particular geographic area to the presentation of the overhead image view of the particular geographic area; and

receiving, by the computing system and during the presentation of the overhead image view of the particular geographic area, an indication of another user input to select the first user interface element; and

displaying, by the computing system as a result of receiving the indication of the another user input to select the first user interface element, the menu of user interface elements with the display of the second user interface element in the collection having changed from (i) presenting an indication that selection of the second user interface element toggles the presentation of the geographic area to the overhead image view, to (ii) presenting an indication that selection of the second user interface element toggles the presentation of the geographic area to the map view.

5. The computer-readable storage device of claim 4, wherein each of the user interface elements in the menu of user interface elements other than the second user interface element remains the same as a result of (i) receiving the indication of the user input to select the first user interface element, and (ii) receiving the indication of the another user input to select the first user interface element.