Dynamic Video Stream Route Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mapping applications provide choppy transitions and disorient users with manual scrolling, often causing the bypass of key landmarks, as they lack dynamic speed and viewing angle adjustments, which are crucial for a realistic navigation experience.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for generating video streams of a mapped route that allow for dynamic perceived speed and viewing angle adjustments based on user input, context, and metadata, using a processor to create a seamless and realistic navigation experience by identifying waypoints and associated images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual scrolling is used to view panoramic images, then users can navigate the map, but transitions become choppy and users may lose orientation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual scrolling (mechanical interaction) with an automated video stream that dynamically adjusts speed and viewing angle based on route context, eliminating choppy transitions and maintaining user orientation through automated navigation
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the perceived speed and viewing angle during the video stream based on route characteristics and landmarks, creating a realistic navigation experience that adapts to changing spatial context rather than using fixed manual scrolling
2Ease of operation
If video stream is generated from a fixed vantage point, then navigation is simplified, but landmarks may be excluded from the view
Solution Approach 1:
The viewing angle is made dynamic rather than fixed, allowing the system to adjust the camera perspective along the route to ensure landmarks are included in the video stream while maintaining a simplified navigation interface for users
3Productivity
If navigation speed is increased in video stream, then travel time is reduced, but landmarks are bypassed too quickly
Solution Approach 1:
The perceived speed is dynamically adjusted throughout the route, slowing down when approaching landmarks or key points of interest and accelerating during less significant segments, allowing users to observe important features while maintaining overall navigation efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the speed parameter dynamically based on route context, using metadata about landmarks and points of interest to modulate playback speed and ensure adequate viewing time for important locations
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AI summary
A method, apparatus and computer program product for generating a video stream of a mapped route, where the video stream provides a perspective of traveling from one location to another at a dynamic perceived speed and from a dynamic perceived viewing angle. Metadata associated with images may provide context to waypoints along a mapped route, such as identification of landmarks or points of interest. Other context may be provided based on the use of the video stream. The perceived speed of movement along the route and perceived viewing angles in various portions of the route may therefore be altered based on the context to allow a user the chance to adequately view areas of interest.