Route Display Method with Captured Images
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional route display systems do not allow users to recognize current road or traffic conditions from a starting point to a destination, preventing users from selecting appropriate routes or virtually experiencing the route before actual travel, which can cause unease for first-time travelers.
Innovation Solution
A method that acquires starting and destination information, generates route information with passing points, extracts and displays corresponding captured images from a database, and synchronizes image display with a moving marker on a map, enabling users to visualize the route and conditions beforehand.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If conventional route display systems only show map images without captured images, then the system complexity is low, but users cannot recognize current road or traffic conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines map images with captured images taken by cameras at various locations along the route. The terminal apparatus displays both the map showing the route from starting point to destination and the captured images corresponding to different passing points, merging navigation information with real-world visual information to provide comprehensive road condition data.
2Loss of information
If the system displays captured images for all passing points, then users can recognize road conditions, but the information processing load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and displays only the necessary captured images corresponding to specific passing points along the route, rather than processing or displaying all available images. The terminal apparatus selectively retrieves images from the database that are relevant to the user's route, reducing unnecessary data processing while still providing comprehensive route condition information.
3Loss of information
If the system provides detailed route information including captured images, then user awareness of road conditions improves, but the ease of operation decreases due to more complex information presentation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the route information into distinct components: map images showing the overall route from starting point to destination, and captured images showing specific conditions at different passing points. This segmentation allows users to view the route overview and detailed condition images separately, making the information more manageable and easier to process while maintaining comprehensive route awareness.
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AI summary
A route display method for display on a terminal apparatus comprises: acquiring starting point information indicating a starting point and destination information indicating a destination; generating route information indicating a route from the starting point to the destination, wherein the route information includes a plurality of passing points; extracting captured images corresponding to the plurality of the passing points from a database which stores the captured images in relation to corresponding image capturing locations respectively, wherein each of the image capturing locations is within a range from the each of the plurality of the passing points; and displaying the extracted captured images in association with a map image sequentially in an order from a first captured Image corresponding to a first passing point closest to the starting point to a second captured image corresponding to a second passing point closest to the destination.