59 results about "Virtual travel" patented technology

Interactive, Internet-based, Trip Planning, Travel Resource, Travel Community, Virtual Travel, Travel-based Education, Travel-related Gaming and Virtual/Live Tour System, Methods, and Processes, emphasizing a user's ability to tailor complete travel, trip, route, and touring choices to unique, user-specified personal interests, preferences, and special requirements for self and companions throughout a particular trip or for gaming or virtual (including live, passive, interactive, individual, group, and scheduled, reserved or on-demand) tours, and including methods and processes related to scheduling games, tours, site visits and other travel-events, making related reservations and obtaining confirmations and e-tickets, and on-line banking services to process ticket, membership and merchandise payments and advertising, reservation and ticket and merchandise transactions for vendors.

Disclosed are a system and method for creating multi-angle views of an object-of-interest from images stored in a dataset. A user specifies the location of an object-of-interest. As the user virtually navigates through the locality represented by the image dataset, his current virtual position is determined. Using the user's virtual position and the location of the object-of-interest, images in the image dataset are selected and interpolated or stitched together, if necessary, to present to the user a view from his current virtual position looking toward the object-of-interest. The object-of-interest remains in the view no matter where the user virtually travels. From the same image dataset, another user can select a different object-of-interest and virtually navigate in a similar manner, with his own object-of-interest always in view. The object-of-interest also can be “virtual,” added by computer-animation techniques to the image dataset. For some image datasets, the user can virtually navigate through time as well as through space.

Disclosed is an electronic real property viewing system for providing virtual tours of real property units via a public communications network such as the internet. The electronic property viewing system includes a system for affiliates to create their own virtual tours in real time by uploading photographs into a template, resulting in both movable and still photographs with accompanying data sets. Another embodiment of this invention involves the exchange of the creation and/or maintenance of such virtual tour available on a public communications network for occupation time units in the real property units.

The invention provides a navigation apparatus and a navigation server capable of providing information to the user enabling comparison between a route that the user is actually traveling and a different route. According to a car navigation apparatus 200, a route setup unit 230 sets up plural routes. An actual route recognition unit 231 recognizes an “actual route” of the vehicle M. Further, a virtual route recognition unit 232 recognizes a “virtual route” that differs from the actual route. Moreover, a virtual travel information recognition unit 240 recognizes a “virtual travel information” containing a virtual position of the vehicle M on the virtual route. The actual travel information, the actual route, the virtual travel information and the virtual route are displayed on a liquid crystal panel 250.

System and method for providing itinerary services for travelers and users, where the travelers travel in at least one predefined traveling area. The system includes mobile communication devices, each of which comprises a positioning system enabled to locate the location of the device. Each device further enables the traveler to document the journey by enabling the traveler to acquire and insert content data and transmit the content data; at least one virtual travel journal enabling each traveler to document his journey by acquiring content data that is associated with the location of the traveler at the time the content was acquired. The system may also include at least one visual online viewer enabling a user to monitor the traveling of the traveler in real time; and a main server that enables receiving, processing, analyzing and storing data transmitted from the virtual travel journal, and presenting the data in real time to users through the visual online viewer.

The invention discloses a transmission system suitable for a large-tonnage alternating current servo press. The output shaft of a disk-type permanent magnet synchronous servo motor and a planet gear speed reducer are made into integral structure; the screw of a driving mechanism and two nuts arranged on the nut form a ball screw structure; the screw is connected with the planet gear speed reducer; the left and the right of a top bar as well as the front and the back of the top bar are symmetrically provided with double toggle rod boosting mechanisms; a symmetrical oscillating rod input type boosting mechanism is arrange between the top bar and the double toggle rod boosting mechanisms; a three-level boosting mechanism causes the amplification multiple of the boosting mechanisms in the beginning stage to be above 15 times; and the amplification multiple is bigger and bigger along with the shaping process to lower the power of the disk-type permanent magnet synchronous servo motor. The transmission system can provide large amplification multiple and has the advantages of obvious boosting effect, large effective boosting travel, small integral structural size, big sliding block travel, quick virtual travel, high working efficiency, quick feeding, low shaping speed and the like, and unbalance loading is simultaneously eliminated.

A conference scheduling device automatically collects data such as call detail records of a conferencing session from a collaborative conference unit and associates the data to each of a plurality of conference attendees. The data is converted into mileage credit for the conference attendees. Rewards may be redeemed from the accumulated mileage credit.

The invention discloses high-immersion virtual travel roaming interaction method and system. The method comprises the steps of: 1, prereading one part of files from a file library to be stored in a buffer by a service end; 2, sending browsing request commands to the server end by a plurality of client ends of an access server through respective triggered interaction events, sequentially receiving and analyzing each request command to compress corresponding files by the server end according to a time sequence of triggering the interaction files and sending the compressed files to all client ends; and 3, sequentially decoding the received compressed files by all the client ends, rendering the decoded files, storing an image generated by the rendering into an image data buffer and displaying to a user. A high-immersion image is rendered, thus a high-immersion picture is provided for the user, and the user obtains an interest of completely immersing the travel.

The inventive method and system relate to simulating methods and systems. The method comprises steps for simulating and representing an environment and consists in carrying out the detailed simulation of localities and different purpose buildings situated therein in such a way that it makes it possible to develop the combined picture of real and virtual media by associating a virtual patterns of objects with systems for the video monitoring of real objects, virtual object such as persons, goods and transport means and in organising virtual travels of users. The user has a possibility of buying or renting available virtual patterns of transport means and in subsequently transporting a virtual object using said virtual transport means. The inventive system comprises a server which is embodied in the form of a group of physical servers and represents and operates a single virtual space, in particular the globe virtual space, by means of specific software tools. Said server is used for storing and publishing all virtual patterns. Computers and/or other systems of the subscribed users are connected to the server via a network by using corresponding software which makes it possible to simulate virtual objects and virtually travelling in a developed virtual world.

The invention discloses a virtual travel method and device, a virtual reality pushing terminal and a virtual reality system. The virtual travel method comprises the steps that a geographic position input by a user is received; according to the geographic position, a geographic position grid relation mapping library is looked up, and a grid matched with the geographic position is locked up; on a map with grids, a virtual travel scene of a scenic spot at the geographic position is displayed. The technical problem that time is consumed in a traditional travel mode is solved by adopting the virtual travel method and device, the virtual reality pushing terminal and the virtual reality system.

A set of user content items, such as a set of photographs or audio or video recordings, is used to identify recommended locations. Each item of user content in the set includes a geographical identifier and a time-stamp indicative of the location and time of origin of the item. The items of user content are placed in time-order, and a route is determined that links, in time-order, the locations identified by the geographical identifiers. A recommended location is then identified, from a database of recommended locations, that is located near the determined route but is not geographically coincident with the locations of any of the items of user content. Information for a map containing the route and an illustration of the identified location are sent to a terminal device for presentation to a user.

The invention provides a virtual travel management method and system based on virtual reality. The method comprises steps of by acquiring a travel place input by a user, acquiring a three-dimensionalscene corresponding to the travel place; displaying the three-dimensional scene; receiving operation on the three-dimensional scene imposed by the user; and according to the operation, carrying out corresponding conversion on the three-dimensional scene and displaying the converted three-dimensional scene. Thus, effects of reducing travel cost and saving travel time are achieved and travel requirements of staying at home of users can be well met.

The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for creating interactive virtual tours. In one embodiment, panoramic imaging systems characterized by a 360-degree lateral field of view and a vertical field of view that is usually less than 180 degrees are utilized and polynomial-based interpolation algorithms are used to correct distortions in the input panoramic images, video or rendered scenes, permitting the use of an arbitrary panoramic imaging system characterized by the ability to generate a seamless 360-degree panoramic view of the imaged scene in each single image frame. The input panoramic images, video or rendered scenes are used to create spherical environment maps that are packaged into completely immersive (giving the impression of being there) virtual tours that are rendered on a display device by a viewing engine that corrects perspective distortions in the spherical environment maps contained in the virtual tour packages and permits a plurality of viewers to view any portion of any of the panoramic scenes in the virtual tour package in a manner that is free from distortions. The present invention also discloses a control engine for representing the individual panoramic scenes contained in the virtual tour package in multi-dimensional space and/or time and for transmitting control signals to the viewing engine that cause the viewing engine to render any particular panoramic scene selected by the viewer and any view window on the selected panoramic scene desired by the viewer. Furthermore, the control engine communicates bi-directionally with the viewing engine and provides a means of indicating which particular panoramic scene is currently viewed by the viewing engine as well as a means of indicating what portion of the selected panoramic scene is currently displayed by the viewing engine.

Maintaining information for a traveler includes creating a virtual travel credential containing information from a physical passport of the traveler and/or physical travel document(s) of the traveler, storing at least a portion of the virtual travel credential in a mobile device carried by the traveler, monitoring a location of the mobile device, and providing a signal in response to the mobile device transitioning from a first country/territory to a second country/territory. Monitoring the location of the mobile device may include detecting a cellular network in communication with the mobile device or using GPS functionality of the mobile device or receiving information that the traveler boarded a plane headed for the second country/territory. At least a portion of the virtual travel credential may be stored in a virtual travel credential server. The virtual travel credential server may communicate with the mobile device using a cellular network.

The embodiments herein provide an internet-based virtual travel system and method that allows people (viewers or virtual travelers) to explore any destination or location in real-time without having to be physically present at those destinations or locations by means of other people (serving as guides or virtual travel guides) who are physically present at the destinations or locations and use one or more mobile devices and/or wearable devices and/or accessories to stream real-time video. The internet-based virtual travel system enables viewers or virtual travelers to find and hire guides or virtual travel guides, virtually explore any destination or location anywhere in the world m real-time via guides or virtual travel guides, receive personalized recommendations regarding virtual exploration (virtual travel) options, make payments or virtual exploration (virtual travel) sessions, visualize virtual exploration (virtual travel) sessions on an interactive map or other forms of visualization, view promotions or product placements incorporated by guides or virtual travel guides during virtual exploration (virtual travel) sessions, engage in real-time virtual shopping via guides or virtual travel guides, and make bookings for physical trips after virtual exploration (virtual travel) sessions.