Map Feature Highlighting for Precise Navigation Guidance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current user interfaces for networked computer systems lack precise and efficient navigation guidance when directing users to specific locations, often relying on inaccurate addresses and lacking essential features for navigation to the exact location where services should be provided.
Innovation Solution
The system retrieves and displays entrance geographic locations, structure visualizations, parking spots, and route information within a user interface, using sensor data to determine common access points and parking areas, and provides visual and instructional guidance as the user approaches the destination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If the system displays comprehensive map features and navigation information, then navigation precision and efficiency are improved, but device complexity and information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments map features into distinct categories (entrances, parking spots, structures, pathways) that can be independently displayed and managed. This segmentation allows the system to provide comprehensive navigation information while organizing it in a structured, manageable way that reduces perceived complexity for the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-identifying and marking important location features (entrances, parking spots, structures) before the user arrives. This advance preparation of navigation information allows for precise guidance without requiring complex real-time processing during the navigation event.
2Productivity
If the system highlights specific map features dynamically, then navigation efficiency is improved, but computational resources and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by highlighting only specific, relevant map features (entrances, parking spots, current position) rather than uniformly processing or displaying all map data. This selective highlighting reduces computational energy by focusing processing resources on locally relevant information that directly aids navigation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system extracts and isolates only the most critical navigation features from the complete map data set for dynamic highlighting. By taking out only the essential elements (current position, destination, key landmarks) from the full map information, the system improves navigation efficiency while minimizing computational energy expenditure.
3Reliability
If the system provides detailed location features and visual guidance, then service delivery accuracy is improved, but data processing requirements and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments location information into distinct feature types (entrances, parking spots, structures, pathways) that can be processed and verified independently. This segmentation improves service delivery accuracy by ensuring each feature type is properly identified and displayed while reducing overall data processing load through modular handling of information categories.
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AI summary
Systems and methods of providing a user interface in which map features associated with places are selectively highlighted are disclosed herein. In some example embodiments, a computer system receives a request for a transportation service associated with a place, retrieves an entrance geographic location for the place from a database, with the entrance geographic location being stored in association with the place in the database and representing an entrance for accessing the place, generating route information based on the retrieved entrance geographic location, with the route information indicating a route from an origin geographic location of a computing device of a user to the entrance geographic location of the place, and causing the generated route information to be displayed within a user interface on a computing device of the user.