Location-Based Service Interface with Simultaneous Panoramic and Map Views
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing navigation and mapping services struggle to seamlessly integrate panoramic views and two-dimensional maps, leading to user confusion when trying to understand spatial relationships and locations, as users must manually switch between views, which hinders intuitive navigation and content discovery.
Innovation Solution
A user interface system that simultaneously displays a main view portion and a preview portion, allowing users to visualize both panoramic images and corresponding map views, with the ability to switch between them intuitively and maintain orientation, using real-time and pre-stored images, and incorporating augmented reality features to provide rich content information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If panoramic views and two-dimensional maps are displayed separately requiring manual switching, then each view can be displayed in full detail, but user understanding of spatial relationships deteriorates and navigation becomes less intuitive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges panoramic view and map view into a single unified user interface display, allowing both views to be simultaneously visible. The panoramic image is displayed in a first region while the map is displayed in a second region of the same interface, eliminating the need for manual switching and enabling users to understand spatial relationships by viewing both representations concurrently.
2Loss of information
If both panoramic view and map view are displayed simultaneously in separate regions, then user understanding of spatial relationships improves, but interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The user interface is segmented into distinct display regions: a first region for the panoramic image and a second region for the map. This segmentation allows each view type to be presented in an optimized format while maintaining their coexistence in a unified interface, reducing the perceived complexity by providing clear visual separation and organization of the two views.
3Ease of operation
If panoramic view is displayed in full screen, then immersive experience improves, but user ability to see map context and switch between views deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a temporal dimension of view switching (full-screen panoramic followed by full-screen map) to a spatial dimension where both panoramic and map views are simultaneously visible in different regions of the same screen. This dimensional change allows users to maintain immersive panoramic viewing while simultaneously accessing map context without requiring full-screen mode switches.
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AI summary
A method including causing, at least in part, rendering of a user interface for a location-based service that simultaneously includes both a main view portion and a preview portion. One of the main view portion and the preview portion is caused, at least in part, to display a perspective view of one or more objects in a field of view, and the other of the main view portion and the preview portion is caused, at least in part, to display a plan view of at least a portion of the one or more objects in the field of view.