113 results about "World map" patented technology

Systems and methods for virtual world simulations of the real-world or emulate real-life or real-life activities in virtual world or real life simulator or generating a virtual world based on real environment: host, at a server, a virtual world geography or environment that correspondences the real world geography or environment as a result, as the user continuously moves about or navigates in a range of coordinates in the real world, the user also continuously moves about in a range of coordinates in the real world map or virtual world; generate and access, by the server, a first avatar or representation, that is associated with a first user or entity in the virtual world; monitor, track and store, by the server, plurality types of data associated with user's real life or real life activities, actions, transactions, participated or participating events, current or past locations, checked-in places, participations, expressions, reactions, relations, connections, status, behaviours, sharing, communications, collaborations, interactions with various types of entities in the real world; receive, by the server, first data associated with a mobile device of the first user related to the first activity from the first geo-location co-ordinates or place; determine, by the server, one or more real world activities of the first user based on the first data; generate, record, simulate and update, by the server, virtual world based on said stored data, wherein updating a first avatar, that is associated with the first user or entity, in the virtual world; causing, by the server, a first avatar associated with the first user or entity, to engage in one or more virtual activities in the virtual world, that are at least one of the same as or sufficiently similar to or substantially similar to the determined one or more real world activities, by generating, recording, simulating, updating and displaying, by a simulation engine, simulation or a graphic user interface that presents a user a simulation of said real-life activities; and display in the virtual world, by the server, said real world activity or interacted entity or location or place or GPS co-ordinates related or associated or one or more types of user generated or provided or shared or identified contextual one or more types of contents, media, data and metadata from one or more sources including server, providers, contacts of user and users of network and external sources, databases, servers, networks, devices, websites and applications, wherein virtual world geography correspondences the real world geography. In an embodiment receiving from a user, a privacy settings, instructing to limit viewing of or sharing of said generated simulation of user's real world life or user's real world life activities to selected one or more contacts, followers, all or one or more criteria or filters specific users of network or make it as private.

In contrast to prior art picture database browsing and retrieving methods which require the tedious opening and perusing of directories, folders and files, the present-inventive graphical user interface system (500) and method produces several display levels (100,200,300,400) of user-friendly geographical / map metaphors from picture metadata with picture icons (116, 216, 316) representing pictures captured at locations on maps. The characteristics of the display levels (100, 200, 300, 400) are programmable by the user. In the preferred embodiment, the size of the picture icons (116, 216, 316) is proportional to the number of pictures captured at the icon location. Further features of the present-inventive graphical user interface (GUI) include a “tool tip” which appears indicating the number of pictures represented by a picture icon (116, 216, 316), when the screen cursor is placed over the picture icon (116, 216, 316). In an example according to the present-inventive GUI, the first display level (100) includes a world map metaphor (114) with picture icons (116) located at the global capture locations of the pictures in the picture database. Each additional display level (200, 300, 400) provides greater geographic specificity of the picture capture locations. Such additional display levels include continent or country of capture (200), state or territory of capture (300), and city or town of capture (400), etc., with the last display level including thumbnail representations (430-448) of the pictures captured at the specified capture locations.

The invention provides a visual ranging-based simultaneous localization and map construction method. The method includes the following steps that: a binocular image is acquired and corrected, so that a distortion-free binocular image can be obtained; feature extraction is performed on the distortion-free binocular image, so that feature point descriptors can be generated; feature point matching relations of the binocular image are established; the horizontal parallax of matching feature points is obtained according to the matching relations, and based on the parameters of a binocular image capture system, real space depth is calculated; the matching results of the feature points of a current frame and feature points in a world map are calculated; feature points which are wrongly matched with each other are removed, so that feature points which are successfully matched with each other can be obtained; a transform matrix of the coordinates of the feature points which are successfully matched with each other under a world coordinate system and the three-dimension coordinates of the feature points which are successfully matched with each other under a current reference coordinate system is calculated, and a pose change estimated value of the binocular image capture system relative to an initial position is obtained according to the transform matrix; and the world map is established and updated. The visual ranging-based simultaneous localization and map construction method of the invention has low computational complexity, centimeter-level positioning accuracy and unbiased characteristics of position estimation.

An underwater vehicle including an axi-symmetric framing system rotatable about a centerline to define a shell of revolution having a uniformly-convex outer boundary. A narrow-beam sonar array is mounted on the axi-symmetric framing system, and includes a multitude of simultaneously-fireable and / or asynchronously-fireable transducers distributed substantially evenly over a 4π-steradian viewing angle. The present invention provides the necessary configuration for a vehicle wherein an internal algorithm can compare a “new” geometry to an “old” geometry collected earlier to construct a best fit of the new world map with the old world map and locate the vehicle within the context of the new world map. This then provides a completely independent mechanism for correction of the gradual drift in x and y that is not dependent on any form of external navigation aid.

A system for Semantic Simultaneous Tracking, Object Registration, and 3D Mapping (STORM) can maintain a world map made of static and dynamic objects rather than 3D clouds of points, and can learn in real time semantic properties of objects, such as their mobility in a certain environment. This semantic information can be used by a robot to improve its navigation and localization capabilities by relying more on static objects than on movable objects for estimating location and orientation.

A database search system that retrieves multimedia information in a flexible, user friendly system. The search system uses a multimedia database consisting of text, picture, audio and animated data. That database is searched through multiple graphical and textual entry paths. Those entry paths include an idea search, a title finder search, a topic tree search, a picture explorer search, a history timeline search, a world atlas search, a researcher's assistant search, and a feature articles search.

A database search system that retrieves multimedia information in a flexible, user friendly system. The search system uses a multimedia database consisting of text, picture, audio and animated data. That database is searched through multiple graphical and textual entry paths. Those entry paths include an idea search, a title finder search, a topic tree search, a picture explorer search, a history timeline search, a world atlas search, a researcher's assistant search, and a feature articles search.

Systems and methods for publication of virtual objects are described. Systems and methods for accessing real world object associated virtual object data, location or geofence information and object criteria, generating a virtual object using the virtual object data; storing data specifying an association between the real world object associated virtual object, location or geofence information and the object criteria; detect that a client device of the server has conducting scanning or augmented reality (AR) scanning or taken a photograph or provide a raw photo or scanned data from particular real world object location; identifying or recognizing an object in the photograph or scanned data; and based on the identified object satisfying the object criteria associated with the virtual object in the stored data, display or provide the virtual object and associated data including virtual money to the client device. In another embodiment providing a game having a virtual world geography that correspondences the real world geography, as a result, as the player continuously moves about or navigates in a range of coordinates in the real world, the player also continuously moves about in a range of coordinates in the real world map or virtual world and responsive to the client device being within a predefined geofence boundary or a set distance of the location of the business in the real world; receiving, by the game server, augmented reality scanning or scanned data or raw photo or captured photograph, identifying or recognizing, by the game server, an object in the photograph or scanned data and based on the identified object satisfying the object criteria associated with the virtual object in the stored data, display or provide, by the game server, the virtual object and associated data including virtual money to the client device. In another embodiment hosting, at a game server, a game, the game having a virtual world geography that correspondences the real world geography, as a result, as the player continuously moves about or navigates in a range of coordinates in the real world based on monitoring and tracking current location of the client device, the player also continuously moves about in a range of coordinates in the real world map or virtual world; accessing pre-defined geo-fence in real world and associated virtual objects; and responsive to the client device being within a pre-defined boundary of geofence in the real world or enters in geofence or stay or dwell for pre-set or particular duration within geofence, display or provide, by the game server, one or more types of one or more virtual objects and associated data including virtual money to the client device or in the real world map or virtual world. In an embodiment display real world activities in 2D or 3D virtual world or real world map interface having corresponding real world geography.

Systems and methods for publication of virtual objects are described. Systems and methods for accessing real world object associated virtual object data, location or geofence information and object criteria, generating a virtual object using the virtual object data; storing data specifying an association between the real world object associated virtual object, location or geofence information and the object criteria; detect that a client device of the server has conducting scanning or augmented reality (AR) scanning or taken a photograph or provide a raw photo or scanned data from particular real world object location; identifying or recognizing an object in the photograph or scanned data; and based on the identified object satisfying the object criteria associated with the virtual object in the stored data, display or provide the virtual object and associated data including virtual money to the client device. In another embodiment providing a game having a virtual world geography that correspondences the real world geography, as a result, as the player continuously moves about or navigates in a range of coordinates in the real world, the player also continuously moves about in a range of coordinates in the real world map or virtual world and responsive to the client device being within a predefined geofence boundary or a set distance of the location of the business in the real world; receiving, by the game server, augmented reality scanning or scanned data or raw photo or captured photograph, identifying or recognizing, by the game server, an object in the photograph or scanned data and based on the identified object satisfying the object criteria associated with the virtual object in the stored data, display or provide, by the game server, the virtual object and associated data including virtual money to the client device. In another embodiment hosting, at a game server, a game, the game having a virtual world geography that correspondences the real world geography, as a result, as the player continuously moves about or navigates in a range of coordinates in the real world based on monitoring and tracking current location of the client device, the player also continuously moves about in a range of coordinates in the real world map or virtual world; accessing pre-defined geo-fence in real world and associated virtual objects; and responsive to the client device being within a pre-defined boundary of geofence in the real world or enters in geofence or stay or dwell for pre-set or particular duration within geofence, display or provide, by the game server, one or more types of one or more virtual objects and associated data including virtual money to the client device or in the real world map or virtual world. In an embodiment display real world activities in 2D or 3D virtual world or real world map interface having corresponding real world geography.

A computer-implemented method and system are provided for driving assistance. The system includes an image capture device configured to capture image data relative to an outward view from a motor vehicle. The system further includes a processor configured to detect and localize objects, in a real-world map space, from the image data using a trainable object localization Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The CNN is trained to detect and localize the objects from image and radar pairs that include the image data and radar data for different driving scenes of a natural driving environment. The processor is further configured to provide a user-perceptible object detection result to a user of the motor vehicle.

Methods, systems and computer program products for displaying geographical locations with the one or more annotations. In a particular embodiment, a language model is used to obtain the probability distribution of the locations over one or more annotations. Further, the system and the method utilizes the probability data obtained from the language model to determine a probability score for each location over the one or more annotations. Subsequently, one or more geographical locations are displayed on a world map, based on the probability score of the geographical locations over the one or more annotations. In one embodiment, geographical locations may be highlighted using a color code on a heat map overlaid on the world map. The color code may represent the ranking of the geographical locations based on the calculated probability score for each identified geographical location. Further, when the user provides one or more additional annotations, the world map may be dynamically updated to display the relevant geographical locations associated with the updated annotations.

The invention discloses a heuristic route segment path-finding method for ship route design, comprising heuristic search, a heuristic shortest route segment path-finding algorithm analysis method, an A* algorithm heuristic principle and an improved shortest path algorithm, wherein the heuristic route segment path-finding algorithm puts forwards a method establishing a navigable path tree to reduce meaningless path searching time by being based on a point to point navigable line algorithm and combining with the A* algorithm heuristic principle. By analyzing the particularity of the route segment path-finding algorithm based on a vector diagram in the ship route design, the route segment path-finding algorithm is improved according to an analysis result, the accuracy of a generated route segment path is enhanced and the path-finding efficiency is further increased. Lands, islands and other barriers positioned on a map of the world are expressed by polygons in the vector diagram, and route segment path-finding is to finally find an optimal route segment from communicated paths which are generated between the two outer points of the polygons without passing through the polygons.

An underwater vehicle including an axi-symmetric framing system rotatable about a centerline to define a shell of revolution having a uniformly-convex outer boundary. A narrow-beam sonar array is mounted on the axi-symmetric framing system, and includes a multitude of simultaneously-fireable and / or asynchronously-fireable transducers distributed substantially evenly over a 4π-steradian viewing angle. The present invention provides the necessary configuration for a vehicle wherein an internal algorithm can compare a “new” geometry to an “old” geometry collected earlier to construct a best fit of the new world map with the old world map and locate the vehicle within the context of the new world map. This then provides a completely independent mechanism for correction of the gradual drift in x and y that is not dependent on any form of external navigation aid.

The invention discloses a geographic information acquisition method and a geographic information acquisition system. The geographic information acquisition system comprises a plurality of client sides and a geographic information service center, wherein the geographic information service center comprises a geographic block subdivision module, a Cartesian mesh coordinate system construction module, a longitude and latitude and mesh coordinate conversion module and a search module; the geographic block subdivision module is used for equally dividing the area of an electronic world map into N*N geographic blocks; the Cartesian mesh coordinate system construction module is used for establishing a Cartesian coordinate system used for embodying the distribution situation of the N*N geographic blocks in the electronic world map; the longitude and latitude and mesh coordinate conversion module is used for converting longitude and latitude data in a received geographic information acquisition request into a mesh coordinate in the Cartesian coordinate system, and determining the geographic block corresponding to the mesh coordinate; and the search module is used for searching the general situation information of a geographic area corresponding to the geographic block and returning the general situation information of the geographic area to a client side.

The invention discloses a method and a system for searching materials based on an electronic map. The method comprises the following steps of: uploading world map software to a world map uploading display sub-system; marking selected media information to a certain position of the map, marking the site where the material event occurs at the position, and displaying the marking result on corresponding position of the map; automatically searching out the media information marked in the displayed map and the time range by the system according to the displayed map and the set time range; displaying the sites having materials on the map within a range of the map, and marking the sites. After clicking a marked site, the material corresponding to the marked site can be previewed. The method greatly improves speed of marking and searching video occurring events, thereby improving work efficiency. In addition, the invention also discloses a system for implementing the method.

A world map includes multiple regions. Each region includes one or multiple areas. A player causes his / her player character to belong to any nation. As a task given to the player character, a battle with an enemy character is provided on the map of each area (the battle may be waged by a party). When the, player character wins the battle in each area, predetermined points are given to a home nation of the player character participating in the battle. The points given to each home nation are totaled for each region, and a nation that dominates each region is decided according to a result of the total points.

A simulation engine for causing a local or distributed computing system to produce a simulation of a virtual world includes one or more program modules that improve the realism and memory management of the simulation. An overworld object includes data pertaining to a world map and data pertaining to parameters for instantiating one or more NPCs within the virtual world. The world map may include map nodes that track the NPCs thereon, and also retain terrain data in a map set. The map set may be a single array of characters, each character referencing a terrain configuration that may be stored on the local computing system. An NPC object may include a hierarchy of needs that governs the behavior of the NPC. The needs may be basic needs such as eating and sleeping, and may have increasing complexity, requiring the completion of tasks and subtasks to fulfill the need.

World maps for the earth's continents are formed from the continental hemisphere as a main body by attaching several sections of the oceanic hemispheres. Folding the hemispheres in half repeatedly makes near-flat disk maps of the both hemispheres. Other methods of producing world maps with less distortion are provided. These maps show that the earth's continents originated concurrently and did not change their shapes much since then. This also supports the inventor's hypothesis that a gigantic meteor-like body broke up in the air and fell as chunks of lava onto a proto-earth covered solely by the ocean.

The invention provides an order form fraud identification method and system based on a GPS (Global Positioning System), storage medium and electronic equipment. The method comprises the following steps that: according to the GPS coordinate distribution of a finished order form in a website, dividing a world map into a plurality of GPS grid positioning areas; in each GPS grid positioning area, independently obtaining historical order forms and recent order forms; in each GPS grid positioning area, calculating the information value of each feature variable; screening the feature variable of which the information value is higher than a preset threshold value, carrying out model training, and obtaining respectively independent fraud identification models which aim at each GPS grid positioningarea; and obtaining a new order form and the GPS ordinates in real time, positioning the GPS grid positioning area where the new order is positioned, and adopting the fraud identification model of theGPS grid positioning area to carry out fraud identification on the new order form. By use of the method for dividing the grid by the GPS coordinate, cost for using a traditional uniform model to carry out fraud identification is lowered, and identification ability for a fraud transaction which frequently replace user characteristics is enhanced.

The invention relates to the technical field of electronic commerce, and provides an open type real-time interaction electronic commerce platform based on the virtual society ecology. According to the electronic commerce platform, a world map serves as the foundation, according to the open type entering principle, different types of companies and people are registered in corresponding coordinate positions in the map according to true addresses, and electronic commerce activities and social activities between people are achieved through the rendering form of game pictures and real-time interaction advantages. The open type real-time interaction electronic commerce platform comprises a virtual social ecology module, a service function module and a background management module, wherein the virtual social ecology module is used for simulating a social ecology system so that the open type entering of users and merchants can be achieved and position information of character roles and buildings can be provided. The service function module is used for achieving the information exchange function and the commodity transaction and business handling function of virtual characters of the platform. The background management module is used for managing virtual scenes, virtual characters and virtual companies in the system.

An embodiment of the invention provides a game server cluster system, which comprises a data server for storing a game world map and game state data, wherein the game world map comprises a plurality of virtual map fragments; a real service, which is in communication connection with the data server and is used for storing at least one virtual map fragment and game state data corresponding to the virtual map fragment; and a plurality of virtual services, which are in communication connection with real service and are used for sending a data synchronization request to the real service and judging whether the real service can respond to the data synchronization request within a fixed time interval; and when the real service cannot send a data synchronization response to the virtual services within the fixed time interval, and the virtual services meet switching conditions, the virtual services start a service switching process. The invention also provides a method for improving game space service.

The invention discloses a display robot for convenient-to-wind world map geography teaching, which comprises a bottom plate and a supporting rectangular block. In an operation problem, a first motor is started through a controller, the first motor drives two engaged gears to move in opposite directions, and thus, two second sliding blocks are driven to move along relative directions; the distancebetween the two second sliding blocks is reduced, a swinging rod generates movement, and thus, a whole baffle is supported to move upwardly, moving to a proper height is carried out, a first displacement sensor can recognize the height, the first motor is controlled to be closed through a first sliding block, the first sliding block moves to a position close to the motor, and through effects of awinding device, the world map surrounds a shaft. A proper height can be improved, the operation process is intelligently adjusted, the teaching processes of geography teacher with different heights are facilitated, the application range is increased, movement is facilitated, the map does not need to be folded for storage, the service life of the map is increased, winding and display are facilitated, and the teaching quality is improved.

The invention discloses a simplified strategy recommendation method for the digital twinning capacity of an industrial assembly line workshop. The method comprises: determining factors influencing digitization based on three levels of information of elements, data and behaviors of the industrial assembly line workshop; integrating factors to establish a digital twinning ability evaluation system;reflecting consistency level of the entity physical world mapped to the virtual world; and calculating the weight of each system level and the final digital twinning capability by combining an analytic hierarchy process and a multi-objective fuzzy decision analysis method, and giving a simplified strategy recommendation method according to the reduced capability level percentage after the digitization degree of the entity workshop is sequentially reduced. By means of the recommendation strategy simplifying method, the digital twinning capacity level of the workshop can be quantitatively and qualitatively judged in a combined mode, digital factors needing to be improved are clear, and simplified reference suggestions can be provided for the situation that all digital twinning cannot be achieved in the workshop due to limitation of the calculated amount or the storage amount.

A method for creating game map includes the following steps. An area of a real world map is selected. A layout of the game map is established based on the selected area. An event generation area is defined on the layout of the game map at a position corresponding to an item image on the real world map. An item-triggered event is added to the event generation area associated with a real world attribute of the item image. The layout of the game map is exported and stored to a computer storage.

A game comprising a mechanical or electronic based game board having a continental world map thereon, plurality of different colored passport cards (one for each player), plurality of different colored game pieces, plurality of question cards, plurality of cultural situation based cards, die with six sides, answer cards denoted with an “A,”“B” or “C,” passport stamps, scoring chart and scoring pads. Each question card has a question and answer on one side and the corresponding answer and question, respectively, on the opposite side. The answer cards comprise a plurality of cards having either an “A,”“B” or “C”. The cultural situation based cards have a hypothetical cultural situation and response, and instructions to the player based on how the hypothetical person responded to the cultural situation. The game board includes a map showing all the continents and two or more intersecting closed-loop paths with question, culture or airport spaces. Each player answers the question drawn when a player lands on a question space or follows the instructions on a drawn culture card when a player lands on a culture space. The passport card is used to collect passport stamps when the player correctly answers a question or is instructed to collect a stamp. The first player to collect all the required stamps or to obtain the highest cultural intelligence score at the end of the game is the winner.

The application relates to a robotic system and method for operating a workpiece. The robotic system includes a robot and a processor configured to autonomously generate a master plan for movement ofan end effector of the robot for operating on an operating surface of a workpiece in a physical environment. The master plan is based on a computer aided design (CAD) model of the workpiece and defines movement paths of the end effector based on a reach distance of a robotic arm of the robot at each of a plurality of working waypoints defined in the master plan and corresponding to fiducial markers on the workpiece. The processor registers the robot to the workpiece, iteratively adjusts an approximate workpiece position in a world map until matching an actual workpiece position in the physicalenvironment, and constructs and executes a robotic arm trajectory causing the end effector to operate on the operating surface along the movement paths defined in the master plan.

A system, method, and computer program for mood mapping with color within a social network is provided. Data about the mood and subsequent data of a plurality of social network members is received. A member of the plurality of social network members is permitted to establish a relationship with any other member of the plurality of social network members with whom a relationship is desired. Mood data and subsequent data are then shared between social network members with a relationship. A member's status is updated with their current mood represented in color as represented: GREEN (happy), ORANGE (excited), PINK (tender), YELLOW (scared), RED (angry), BLUE (sad), GREY (transition). Mood data represented in color from the plurality of social network members is aggregated and displayed in real-time on a world map and summarized via a device containing circles that proportionally displays aggregated color mood data.

An object mapping system and method associated with expedient determination of a location of one or more coordinate points of interest (POI) in a bounded 3D environment is disclosed. The system performs various operations that include creating an initial map comprising unique characteristics associated with a bounded physical environment in response to a request by a user via a computing device. Object recognition analysis is performed in order to determine labels associated with objects using image recognition processing based at least on a user command to locate one or more objects of interest and the unique characteristics associated with the bounded physical environment. A world map representation is generated with editable object tags associated with the one or more objects of interest and the unique characteristics associated with the bounded physical environment. Navigation instructions are provided to guide the user device to the one or more objects of interest based on a distance analysis of a current location of the user device to a destination location. A control signal is generated to the anchor node based on an angle analysis associated with the destination location and the object of interest location. The control signal is processed using the anchor node to facilitate rotation of at least one laser pointer device in one or more of an (x,y,z) coordinate-based directional angle. A laser signal is generated that targets the one or more objects of interest for expedient determination of the one or more coordinate points of interest (POI) associated with the one or more objects of interest and respective location.A corresponding method and computer-readable medium are also disclosed.

The invention relates to a virtual reality realization system and a method thereof. The system comprises a right control layer, a service control layer, a UI interface display layer, an entity storage layer and an application port; the right control layer is respectively connected with the service control layer, the UI interface display layer, the entity storage layer and the application port; every two of the service control layer, the UI interface display layer and the entity storage layer are mutually connected; the application port is respectively connected with the UI interface display layer, the entity storage layer and the application port. The system and the method of the invention are advantaged by that the system maps the real world; the virtual world which is similar to the real world as much as possible and is generated by the world map is directly applied; the range is maximum; the participated customers are the most extensive and the largest; the system with orders and behaviors corresponding to the social orders and social behaviors of the real society is provided; integration and cooperation with the all prior arts can be realized; most part of the operations of the human society is generated in the system in advance; jam and busy are released; and the employment is increased.