Patents by Inventor Sampo T. Vaittinen

Sampo T. Vaittinen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage media for providing interactive navigational assistance using movable guidance markers
    Patent number: 9525964
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and computer-readable storage media for displaying at a first user equipment a first marker a location wherein the location is defined remotely at a second user equipment; displaying at the second user equipment a current geographic location and a current vantage point for the first user equipment; displaying at the second user equipment a second marker; accepting at the second user equipment an input for adjusting the second marker from a first position to a second position, wherein the second position is indicative of a target geographic location in a first virtual view of the current geographic location of the first user equipment as displayed on the second user equipment; and in response to the adjusting, displaying at the first user equipment the first marker at the target geographic location in a second virtual view of the current geographic location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Petri Piippo, Sampo T. Vaittinen, Juha H. Arrasvuori
  • Methods, Apparatuses, and Computer-Readable Storage Media for Providing Interactive Navigational Assistance Using Movable Guidance Markers
    Publication number: 20130201214
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and computer-readable storage media for displaying at a first user equipment a first marker a location wherein the location is defined remotely at a second user equipment; displaying at the second user equipment a current geographic location and a current vantage point for the first user equipment; displaying at the second user equipment a second marker; accepting at the second user equipment an input for adjusting the second marker from a first position to a second position, wherein the second position is indicative of a target geographic location in a first virtual view of the current geographic location of the first user equipment as displayed on the second user equipment; and in response to the adjusting, displaying at the first user equipment the first marker at the target geographic location in a second virtual view of the current geographic location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Petri Piippo, Sampo T. Vaittinen, Juha H. Arrasvuori