Point Of Interest (poi) Or Landmark Patents (Class 701/426)
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Patent number: 11055376Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for identifying points of interest and specific locations located in the vicinity of an expected future location of a user. When a user provides a search request for a point of interest that will be of interest only at a future time, the electronic device can automatically predict an expected future location of the user, and provide points of interest near the expected future location.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Michael Stallman
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Patent number: 10984489Abstract: A facility for determining an estimated value of a home is described. The facility applies a first valuation model that is insensitive to value-affecting geographic features near the home to obtain a first valuation. The facility applies a second valuation model that is sensitive to value-affecting geographic features near the home to obtain a second valuation. The facility combines the first and second valuations to obtain an estimated value of the home.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2014Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Zillow, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Bruce, Michael Andrew Babb, Chunyi Wang
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Patent number: 10977850Abstract: An example system includes an electronic device and a server. The electronic device includes a display; a first communicator; and a first controller configured to: control to transmit, to the server, location data identifying locations of the electronic device. The server includes a second communicator; and a second controller configured to: control to receive the location data; identify a course of travel; link photograph images to locations on the course of travel; and control to transmit to the electronic device the course of travel and the photograph images. The first controller of the electronic device is configured to control to receive the course of travel and the photograph images and to control to display on the display, at the same time, a map image, the course of travel, and one or more of the photograph images linked to a selected location on the course of travel.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-Yong Chang, Seung-dong Yu, Se-jun Park, Min-jeong Moon
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Patent number: 10952023Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a reception unit, and an output unit. The acquisition unit acquires electronic pictorial map information based on a pictorial map. The reception unit receives information of a desired position to be output onto the pictorial map. The output unit outputs the position received by the reception unit onto the pictorial map information, based on characteristic information on the pictorial map information and electronic map information in which position identification information including the position to be output onto the pictorial map is set.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke Tamura, Tomoyuki Shimizu, Kazuya Tanaka, Yasuhiro Ito
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Patent number: 10949469Abstract: A device can receive parking information for a set of street segments within a geographic region. The parking information can include metadata for a set of parking spaces within the set of street segments. The device can create a set of block-face objects that represent block-faces within the set of street segments. The device can generate a data structure that associates the parking information for the set of street segments with the set of block-face objects. The device can receive, from a user device, a request for parking information associated with a geographic area. The device can obtain the parking information associated with the geographic area by using location information included in the request to search the data structure. The device can provide the parking information associated with the geographic area for display on a user interface of the user device.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Sean Holman, Megan M. Latta, Matthew Wickman
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Patent number: 10939275Abstract: A method of providing connectivity navigation with a head unit in a navigation system includes the steps of determining a reception state of global positioning system (GPS) information, searching for at least one device connected by wire or wirelessly, receiving position sensor information from the searched devices, determining reliability of the position sensor information, and selecting information of a device having high reliability as received information based on the determined reliability. In addition, a navigation system including the head unit, a vehicle controller, a mobile terminal, and a telematics server performs the method of providing connectivity navigation.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventor: Hwang Jik Lee
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Patent number: 10915926Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for location-based advertisements. In accordance with one exemplary implementation, a method is provided for providing advertisements to a user of a navigation system. The method may include identifying high-value intersections in a map. The method may also include identifying, based on the high-value intersections, a set of landmark locations and associating the landmark locations with the high-value intersections in a database. The method may also include detecting at least one of the high-value intersections in a route requested by the user. The method may also include presenting, on a device of the user, an advertisement associated with at least one landmark location while presenting maneuver information for the at least one high-value intersection.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2012Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Patrick Allan McDevitt, G. Duane Gearhart, John Patrick O'Dwyer
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Patent number: 10916056Abstract: A method of displaying virtual information in a view of a real environment comprising the following steps: providing the system relative to at least one part of the real environment and providing accuracy information of the current pose, providing multiple pieces of virtual information, and assigning a respective one of the pieces of virtual information to one of different parameters indicative of different pose accuracy information, and displaying at least one of the pieces of virtual information in the view of the real environment according to the accuracy information of the current pose in relation to the assigned parameter.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Peter Meier
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Patent number: 10909149Abstract: In a method and a device for creating and providing a map, a highly accurate map that includes multiple highly accurate map features is obtained, a shared map feature attribute is determined as a function of the multiple highly accurate map features, a derivative map is created as a function of the shared map feature attribute, and the map is output.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Roland Homeier, Christian Passmann, Daniel Zaum
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Patent number: 10904706Abstract: An approach is provided for presenting contextual content for an end-to-end seamless experience during an autonomous vehicle trip. The approach, for example, involves retrieving content related to at least one context associated with a destination of a vehicle. The approach also involves adapting the content to one or more presentation devices in the vehicle. The approach further involves initiating a presentation of the adapted content on the one or more presentation devices to provide a simulation of the at least one context associated with the destination as the vehicle travels towards the destination.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventors: Jerome Beaurepaire, Wiebke Hurrelmann-Wieding
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Patent number: 10900795Abstract: A method of and a system for processing a ridesharing request. The method comprising receiving instructions to create a trip in the ridesharing platform; generating an original route by causing to compute an original polyline defining the original route; accessing a set of meeting points; determining from the set of meeting points, candidate meeting points which are within a distance from the original polyline; generating for each one of the candidate meeting points, a detour route by causing to compute a detour polyline defining the detour route; identifying selected candidate meeting points from the candidate meeting points; and storing the selected candidate meeting points, the selected candidate meeting points being associated with the trip.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: COMUTO S.A.Inventors: Frederic Gabriel Mazzella, Arnaud Marc Tellier
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Patent number: 10824985Abstract: Techniques for providing details associated with an item for acquisition from a pick-up unit are described herein. In particular implementations, a service provider may determine whether a mobile device is within a predetermined distance from the pick-up unit. In some implementations, a companion application may allow a user of the mobile device to cause a sensory function at the pick-up unit when the mobile device is within the predetermined distance. For instance, the user may use the companion application to cause the pick-up unit to produce light, sounds, smoke, bubbles, among other operations.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Katie Swanson, Nathan Kyle Newsom
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Patent number: 10801849Abstract: A method includes generating by a controller autonomous commands for the vehicle with an altered route such that the destination is maintained and the repeated segment is replaced with an alternate segment having unobserved tour content for the occupant. The generation is responsive to receiving a route having a destination of a vehicle and a repeated segment previously traversed by an occupant where tour content was presented to the occupant while the repeated segment was traversed.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2018Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Oleg Yurievitch Gusikhin
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Patent number: 10743178Abstract: Reduced resolution location determination for improved anonymity of a user location is disclosed. In some implementations, a first location of a computing device operating in a geographic area is determined. A population density of the geographic area is estimated. A grid overlay is generated, including a number of cells based on the estimated population density. Using the grid overlay, a second location is generated for the computing device that is less precise than the first location. The less precise second location can be used in a local search or other application to improve the anonymity of the user location.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ronald K. Huang, Lukas M. Marti, Stephen J. Rhee, Robert Mayor, Tadaaki Shimada
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Patent number: 10718624Abstract: A vehicular parking assist system includes a location sensor disposed at a vehicle that at least in part determines a current geographical location of the vehicle. An ECU is disposed in the vehicle and stores a database of parking space locations where the vehicle has previously been parked. The vehicular parking assist system receives wireless communications from a remote server pertaining to parking spaces at or near the current geographical location of the vehicle. Responsive at least in part to (i) an output of the location sensor, (ii) the stored database of parking space locations where the vehicle has previously been parked and (iii) the received wireless communications from the remote server, the vehicular parking assist system determines a likelihood of finding an empty parking space at or near the current geographical location of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Nathaniel S. Johnson, Paul A. VanOphem
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Patent number: 10715653Abstract: The present invention provides a system for providing geolocation services in a mobile-based crowdsourcing platform. The system includes a plurality of remote mobile devices configured to communicate and exchange data with a geolocation service based on the crowdsourcing, or polling, of users of such mobile devices to determine location and movement of the users within a specific environment. For example, in an outdoor environment such as a parking lot, the system can track the location of a user's vehicle within the lot and provide the user with an exact position of their vehicle upon the user returning to the parking lot. In the instance of an indoor environment, such as an airport, the system provides a messaging/location alert service for persons within the airport, where any given person's location within the airport can be determined and correlated with an impending departure of a flight for which they are associated.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: CROWDCOMFORT, INC.Inventor: Abdullah Daoud
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Patent number: 10713945Abstract: A method of guiding a user to a suitable parking spot is a method used to aid a user in finding a suitable parking spot near a desired location. The method uses at least one remote server and a mobile computing device. The remote server manages information related to potential parking spots, and performs calculations to determine if a potential parking spot is a suitable parking spot. The mobile computing device monitors the location of the user and allows the user to interact with the method. A parking search request is sent from the mobile computing device to the remote server. Upon receiving the parking search request, the geospatial vehicle detection system is used to locate potential parking spots. At least one filtering process is used to identify suitable parking spots from the potential parking spots, before the suitable parking spots are displayed to the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Inventor: David Chan
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Patent number: 10705524Abstract: The present invention provides a task execution method and device. The task execution method includes: obtaining a task list, where the task list includes at least two to-be-executed tasks; determining a task mode, where the task mode includes a task set mode and a task flow mode; and executing the at least two to-be-executed tasks according to the determined task mode.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: AUTEL ROBOTICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Ke Zhang, Bo Zang
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Patent number: 10694324Abstract: In some embodiments, a method includes: obtaining position information of a wireless hotspot where the user locates, based on hotspot scanning information of wireless hotspots already scanned by the user; acquiring one or more candidate Points of Interest (POIs) close to the wireless hotspot based on the position information; based on characteristic information corresponding to the wireless hotspot and respective candidate POIs, ranking all candidate POIs to determine an POI matching the wireless hotspot, wherein the characteristic information comprises access characteristic information. In some embodiments, the following advantages may be realized: the POI matching the wireless hotspot is obtained based on relevant data that the user scans the wireless hotspot to predict the POI actually accessed by the user without a procedure of manually collecting the data or user feedback, thereby improving the efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) CO., LTDInventors: Tianyi Wang, Chao Li, Haishan Wu
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Patent number: 10664951Abstract: A display control device configured to display an image on a display mounted on a vehicle, the display control device includes circuitry configured to: acquire positional information of the vehicle; derive supply information about an object around the vehicle based on attribute information of a driver of the vehicle and the positional information, the supply information being supplied to the driver; display a character on the display; cause an output device to output the supply information; and display the character directing a sightline toward the object on the display.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Chikage Kubo, Takuji Yamada
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Patent number: 10643466Abstract: A vehicle search system includes a vehicle incorporating a vehicle-mounted camera and a server configured to communicate with the vehicle. The server transmits search target vehicle data for specifying a search target vehicle to the vehicle. The vehicle is configured to (a) store the search target vehicle data from the server and (b) transmit, when a vehicle detected by the vehicle-mounted camera falls under search target vehicles included in the search target vehicle data, detection information on the detected vehicle to the server.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Satoru Sakuma, Shuhei Yamamoto, Munehiro Kamiya, Hideo Hasegawa, Shinji Kurachi, Tomoya Shimizu
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Patent number: 10627246Abstract: Techniques for modifying and presenting instructions for traversing a route include obtaining original instructions and receiving input to modify the instructions. The instructions may be modified and/or annotated based on the input received to provide more intuitive and helpful instructions for traversing a route. The modified instructions may be presented to a user of a computing device as the computing device traverses the route. The modifications and/or annotations to the original instructions may be presented as the computing device traverses the route based at least in part on the location and/or speed of the computing device on the route.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Felix Andrew, Silvana Moncayo, Katherine Anne Maertens, Myron Thomas
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Patent number: 10609510Abstract: A mobile electronic apparatus comprises: a display; a first detector configured to obtain first information; a second detector configured to obtain second information; a broadcast unit; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor causes the display to display a first image if detecting, based on the first information, that a user is walking and determining, based on the second information, that the user is in an area other than a predetermined area, and the at least one processor causes the display to produce a screen display and causes the broadcast unit to perform a first broadcast when detecting, based on the first information, that the user is walking and determining, based on the second information, that the user is in the predetermined area.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Shigeki Tanabe, Hideki Morita, Isao Masuike, Shinya Saito, Tetsushi Wakasa
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Patent number: 10553114Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for predicting parking availability for one or more road segments based on the map-matched probe data points. A method may include: receiving probe data points from a vehicle, where each probe data point includes a location; determining, from the probe data points, a parking location of the vehicle on a road segment, where the relative location along the road segment on which the vehicle parked can be determined; and estimating availability of other parking spaces along the road segment based on the relative location.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventors: Daniel Rolf, Raul Cajias
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Patent number: 10515551Abstract: This document describes systems and techniques that may be used to aggregate information about open parking spots from various different parking providers or organizations.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jason Woodard, Joseph Catalano, Ryan Kotler, Adam Richard Rogal
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Patent number: 10515470Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can acquire a request for a map of a particular region. A first set of one or more map portions for representing a first portion of the particular region can be identified based on the particular region. The first set can be associated with a first map data source. A second set of one or more map portions for representing a second portion of the particular region can be identified based on the particular region. The second set can be associated with a second map data source. The map of the particular region can be generated based on a combination of the first set and the second set.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Tomasz Zawada, Jason Michael Carreiro, Saurav Mohapatra, Kunal Bhalla, Kuan-Yu Tseng
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Patent number: 10509810Abstract: A method for updating a computer generated may including providing tools for a user to draw building outlines on the map, and move icons that are associated with the building to points near on inside the new outline. Thereafter, the update map and icon location are distributed for display on a plurality of computer displays.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Never-Search, Inc.Inventor: Keith Kreft
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Patent number: 10482668Abstract: A system and method for tracking positions of objects in an actual scene in a wide range of lighting conditions. A vision-inertial navigation system is provided that may be configured to track relative positions of objects of interest in lighting conditions ranging from, e.g., typical indoor lighting conditions to direct sunlight to caves with virtually with no light. The navigation system may include two or more helmet-mounted cameras each configured to capture images of the actual scene in a different lighting condition. A remote processing element may combine data from the two or more helmet-mounted cameras with data from a helmet-mounted inertial sensor to estimate the position (e.g., 3D location) of the objects.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: THALES VISIONIX, INC.Inventor: Thomas Calloway
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Patent number: 10480954Abstract: An authoritative candidate is selected for determining a location of a point of interest (POI). Source data including name, address, and location for POIs is received from multiple data sources. The received data is normalized for ease of comparison, and coordinates for each candidate are compared to coordinates of other candidates to determine which candidate if any is an authoritative location for the POI. The candidate locations are compared using two models a metric-based scoring system and a machine learning model that may utilize a gradient boosted decision tree. The authoritative candidate can be used to render digital maps that include the POI. In addition, the authoritative candidate's location can be used to provide vehicle route guidance to the POI.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Chandan Prakash Sheth, Sheng Yang, Vasudev Parameswaran, Shivendra Pratap Singh, Jane Alam Jan
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Patent number: 10474671Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a query provided from a user device, and determining that the query is implicitly about some entity, and in response: obtaining an approximate location of the user device when the user device provided the query, obtaining a set of entities including one or more entities, each entity in the set of entities being associated with the approximate location, and determining that the query is implicitly about an entity in the set of entities, and in response: providing a revised query based on the query and the entity, the revised query explicitly referencing the entity.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Behshad Behzadi, Nils Grimsmo
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Patent number: 10436600Abstract: In a vehicle image display system, a travel behavior of an own vehicle during automated driving to be subsequently performed is previously noticed to an occupant with display to be recognized intuitively and instantaneously. A vehicle image display system includes a first display device that uses a front windshield as a display screen and a second display device as a monitor device mounted on a dashboard, and displays, on a display screen of each display device, a moving image of a virtual image of the own vehicle travelling on an arrow of a symbol image indicating a travel course for lane change as having the arrow as a trajectory therefor so as to visually provide prior notice of the lane change to the occupant when the own vehicle in the automated driving system is about to perform the lane change as being deviated from a scheduled travel course.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignees: IMAGE CO., LTDInventors: Shuichi Tayama, Yukio Watanabe
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Patent number: 10300384Abstract: A game processing system that controls a display to display a plurality of graphic forms each indicating an identifier; identifies a trajectory of a continuously drawn input selecting a plurality of the graphic forms; identifies the identifiers of the graphic forms corresponding to the input trajectory; identifies at least a first command based on an arrangement of the identifiers when detecting an end of the input; and controls a game operation of attacking an opponent based on the command.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: GREE INC.Inventor: Ryosuke Inamori
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Patent number: 10299071Abstract: A system for exchanging GPS or other position data between wireless devices for purposes of group activities, child location monitoring, work group coordination, dispatching of employees etc. Cell phones and other wireless devices with GPS receivers have loaded therein a Buddy Watch application and a TalkControl application. The Buddy Watch application communicates with the GPS receiver and other wireless devices operated by buddies registered in the users phone as part of buddy groups or individually. GPS position data and historical GPS position data can be exchanged between cell phones of buddies and instant buddies such as tow truck drivers via a buddy watch server. Emergency monitoring services can be set up with notifications to programmable individuals in case an individual does not respond. Positions and tracks can be displayed. TalkControl simplifies and automates the process of joining talk groups for walkie talkie services such as that provided by Nextel.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: X One, Inc.Inventor: Richard D. Haney
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Patent number: 10296525Abstract: Implementations relate to providing geographic locations related to user interests. In some implementations, a method includes receiving an indication of a user location and determining one or more subjects of interest to the user based on examining a collection of images associated with the user. The subjects of interest are determined by determining distinctive image characteristics that have a higher frequency in the collection of user images compared to a frequency of similar stored image characteristics of a population of images associated with multiple users. Site characteristics of a geographic area are obtained based on images captured in the geographic area. The site characteristics are compared to the subjects of interest and one or more geographic locations in the geographic area are determined that have site characteristics similar to the subjects of interest. The geographic locations are provided to be output by the user device.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Brian Brewington, Sujoy Banerjee, Fritz Obermeyer
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Patent number: 10267891Abstract: A system and method for transferring data includes an information platform to identify a navigational position of the information platform; a first near field communication (NFC) device attached to the information platform to transmit navigational position data; and a second NFC device to receive the navigational position data from the first NFC device through a NFC data transfer process to establish a navigational position of the second NFC device relative to the first NFC device and without further communication from the first NFC device. The information platform may be stationary. The information platform may be moving. The information platform may include any of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) platform, an inertial navigation system, and a cell phone. The NFC data transfer process may occur within one second.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air ForceInventors: Frederick Webber, Eric Vinande
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Patent number: 10238970Abstract: A game processing system that controls a display to display a plurality of graphic forms each indicating an identifier; identifies a trajectory of a continuously drawn input selecting a plurality of the graphic forms; identifies the identifiers of the graphic forms corresponding to the input trajectory; identifies at least a first command based on an arrangement of the identifiers when detecting an end of the input; and controls a game operation of attacking an opponent based on the command.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: GREE INC.Inventor: Ryosuke Inamori
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Patent number: 10234295Abstract: A system includes reception of first address data associated with a first location, the first address data comprising first geo-coordinates, determination of a first two or more candidate cities based on the first address data, identification of a first one of the first two or more candidate cities based on the first geo-coordinates, and generation of second address data associated with the first location based on the identified first one of the first two or more candidate cities.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Ronald Dupey, Jeffrey Woody, Prasanthi Thatavarthy
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Patent number: 10225683Abstract: Examples are generally described that include methods and systems for providing a reminder and/or identifying availability of a good or service, or both. In many examples, a reminder may be provided when a computing device satisfies one or more criteria associated with a reminder request. For instance, a reminder may be provided when the location associated with a computing device is proximate a destination and when the direction of travel associated with a computing device indicates that the proximity of the computing device is increasing or decreasing relative to a predetermined location. In other examples, a computing device may be utilized to identify an entity that associated with a requested good or a requested service, or both. In some examples, a location associated with the computing device may be determined and servers associated with an entity within a range of the location may be searched to identify the request good or the requested service, or both.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 79 LLCInventor: Michael L. Howard
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Patent number: 10215577Abstract: A mapping system is disclosed that provides route guidance in the form of a map and verbal or textual directions which includes reference to both landmarks and personal contacts. Landmarks and contacts can be rated for suitability in providing route guidance. Depending on the rating, guidance using landmarks or personal contacts can be preferentially used in place of or to supplement guidance based on the underlying road network.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Uber Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Esther Abramovich Ettinger
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Patent number: 10192239Abstract: Contextual or cumulative interpretation is applied to individual user queries to improve the accuracy of sponsored and/or non-sponsored search results. Queries are interpreted based on present features derived from a user query in the context of past features derived from qualified past queries such as those previously received during a user query session. Based on contextual interpretation, present features may be augmented using past features. A search is performed using augmented features instead of present features. Contextual interpretation of queries improves search system understanding of the context in which queries are submitted, which is particularly helpful when interpolating query intent to develop features not expressed in a query. Contextual interpretation permits queries to be interpreted and treated more uniformly and more intelligently. As a result, users and advertisers benefit from more precise sponsored and/or non-sponsored search results.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2016Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: EXCALIBUR IP, LLCInventors: Ankur K. Gupta, Arun Kumar Gnanamani
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Patent number: 10168169Abstract: A method for calculating a distance to empty (DTE) when setting a path of navigation is provided. The method includes receiving path search cases from a navigation and determining whether the transmitted path search case is a path cancellation, a vehicle arriving at a destination, or the navigation searching for the path. The method determines whether the transmitted path search case is an initially set path or a reset path. When the transmitted path search case is none of the above the method determines whether there is a currently guided. When the path is initially set, the path is reset after, or the path is currently being guided, among the path search cases, a path reflected DTE is displayed through the navigation; and the path reflected DTE is calculated in real time and path reflected prediction fuel efficiency is calculated, after displaying the path reflected DTE.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Hyundai Motor CompanyInventors: Jin Hyung Lee, Sang Woo Lee, Yong Seok Park
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Patent number: 10170084Abstract: A navigation application can generate and display a composite representation of multiple POIs when POI icons representing the POIs appear to be overlapping. Some embodiments display the composite representation when a certain zoom level is reached for a map including the multiple POI icons. In some embodiments, the navigation application can determine POIs that may be of interest to the user based on the user's attributes and activity history and generate the composite representation based on those attributes. The composite representation can include multiple POI icons that are displayed adjacent to each other such that a user of the navigation application can readily identify POIs that are likely to be of interest to the user within a region.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher Blumenberg, Marcel Van Os, Mikio Inose
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Patent number: 10168155Abstract: A computing system is described that obtains, based at least in part on information included in at least one previous communication associated with a user of a computing device, an indication of a future location and a future time and event information associated with the future location and the future time. The computing system obtains a duration of time for the user to travel from a current location of the computing device to the future location, and, based at least in part on the duration of time, obtains a departure time at which the user is predicted to need to depart from the current location in order to arrive at the future location by an arrival time based on the event. The computing system outputs, for transmission to the computing device, an indication associated with the event and including information indicative of the departure time.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Tom Carl Stamm, Dale Kris Hawkins, James A. Guggemos, Tushar Udeshi, Pablo Bellver, Emil Praun, Guang Yang, Andrew Kirmse, Gokay Baris Gultekin, Bill Connor, Keir Banks Mierle
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Patent number: 10102221Abstract: An approach is provided for optimizing the generation of a location based search result. An optimization platform generates is also caused to initiate at least one second-location based search for at least one non-overlapping area of at least one first search area and at least one second search area to generate at least one set of new results. The optimization platform also designates at least one portion of the at least one first set of results as at least one set of old results. The optimization platform then returns at least one set of new results and the at least one set of old results as at least one second set of results for the at least one second location-based search.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: HERE Global B.V.Inventor: Marko Tapio Tuukkanen
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Patent number: 10091646Abstract: Reduced resolution location determination for improved anonymity of a user location is disclosed. In some implementations, a first location of a computing device operating in a geographic area is determined. A population density of the geographic area is estimated. A grid overlay is generated, including a number of cells based on the estimated population density. Using the grid overlay, a second location is generated for the computing device that is less precise than the first location. The less precise second location can be used in a local search or other application to improve the anonymity of the user location.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ronald K. Huang, Lukas M. Marti, Stephen J. Rhee, Robert Mayor, Tadaaki Shimada
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Patent number: 10025830Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing local search results. In one aspect, a method includes accessing data specifying for a first local entity respective sets of second local entities; determining from the respective sets of second local entities a composite set of second local entities ranked according to a composite order of relatedness to the first local entity; determining from the composite set of second local entities, a reference distance for the first local entity; and adjusting the composite order of the composite set of second local entities based on the reference distance for the first local entity and the respective distance of each geographic location of each second local entity from the geographic location of the first local entity.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Kumar Mayur Thakur, Mukund Jha
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Patent number: 9956486Abstract: A game processing system that controls a display to display a plurality of graphic forms each indicating an identifier; identifies a trajectory of a continuously drawn input selecting a plurality of the graphic forms; identifies the identifiers of the graphic forms corresponding to the input trajectory; identifies at least a first command based on an arrangement of the identifiers when detecting an end of the input; and controls a game operation of attacking an opponent based on the command.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: GREE, INC.Inventor: Ryosuke Inamori
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Patent number: 9933273Abstract: A system includes a navigation device and a processor in communication with the navigation device and an output. The processor is configured to receive a plurality of POIs. The processor is also configured to search for at least a first of the POIs in first proximity to a route in the navigation device. Further, the processor is configured to, subsequent to the search for a first POI in first proximity, for each instance of the first POI in first proximity to the route, search for at least a second of the POIs in second proximity to the first POI. The processor is also configured to output any instances wherein each of the POIs are found to be in second proximity to at least one of the other POIs of the plurality of POIs.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2012Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Ritesh Pandya, Charles Michael Broadwater
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Patent number: 9921734Abstract: A context-sensitive viewing system is disclosed in which various data visualizations, also referred to a contextual views, of a common set of data may be viewed by a user on an electronic device. Data in the system may comprise data objects and associated properties and/or metadata, and may be stored in one or more electronic data stores. As a user of the system views and manipulates a first contextual view of a set of data objects, one or more other contextual views of the same set of data objects may be updated accordingly. Updates to the secondary contextual views may, in various embodiments, happen real-time. Further, the secondary contextual views may be visible to the user simultaneously with the primary contextual view. A user may switch from one view to another, and may manipulate data in any view, resulting in updates in the other views.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Joshua Goldenberg, Brian Ngo, Bill Dwyer, Parvathy Menon, Gregory Martin, Zach Bush, Allen Chang, Mike Boland
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Patent number: 9911400Abstract: An improve navigation application can generate and display a composite representation of multiple POIs when POI icons representing the POIs appear to be overlapping. Some embodiments display the composite representation when a certain zoom level is reached for a map including the multiple POI icons. In some embodiments, the navigation application can determine POIs that may be of interest to the user based on the user's attributes and activity history and generate the composite representation based on those attributes. The composite representation can include multiple POI icons that are displayed adjacent to each other such that a user of the navigation application can readily identify POIs that are likely to be of interest to the user within a region.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher Blumenberg, Marcel Van Os, Mikio Inose