Schematic Destination Maps With Dynamic Route Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional maps, whether literal destination or schematic route maps, often clutter users with irrelevant details, making it difficult to navigate effectively to a destination, especially when routes are obstructed or when additional information like parking locations is needed.
Innovation Solution
An automatic schematic map generator that filters and simplifies geographic data to create an enhanced schematic destination map, providing easy-to-read routes, de-emphasized details, and relevant information, using a hierarchy of roads and distortion techniques to enhance usability and clarity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If literal destination maps display all visible details at a given zoom level, then completeness of information is improved, but map clutter and difficulty in finding destination increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes irrelevant geographic features from the map display, keeping only those features that are necessary for navigation to the destination. This is achieved through an automated filtering process that identifies and eliminates cluttering elements while preserving destination-relevant information, thereby reducing map clutter without losing essential navigation data.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different levels of detail and filtering to different regions of the map based on their relevance to the destination. Areas closer to the destination or containing navigationally important features are displayed with higher detail, while distant or irrelevant areas are simplified or omitted entirely, creating a non-uniform quality distribution that optimizes both information completeness and ease of navigation.
2Ease of operation
If schematic route maps depict only a single route with minimal information, then ease of reading is improved, but help availability when route is unavailable or user strays decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates dynamic maps that can adapt their content based on the user's current location and navigation status. The map automatically updates to provide alternative routes when the primary route becomes unavailable, and adjusts the level of detail shown based on whether the user is following the route or has deviated, thereby maintaining ease of reading while improving adaptability to changing conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent designs the map to serve multiple functions: it provides primary route guidance, displays alternative routes when needed, shows parking locations, and offers contextual information about the destination area. This multi-functional approach allows a single map display to handle various navigation scenarios, making the system both easy to read and highly adaptable to different situations.
3Ease of operation
If conventional maps are displayed on portable devices, then accessibility is improved, but static nature prevents dynamic adaptation to location changes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic map generation that automatically updates based on the user's current GPS location. As the user moves through the environment, the map recalculates and re-renders to show the most relevant features and routes from the current position, maintaining accessibility on portable devices while adding real-time adaptability to location changes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates continuous feedback loops where the system monitors the user's location, compares it to the planned route, and automatically adjusts the map display accordingly. This feedback mechanism enables the map to respond dynamically to user movement and environmental changes, providing context-aware navigation assistance that adapts to the user's current situation.
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AI summary
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates automatically producing an enhanced schematic destination map to provide directions to a destination related to geography. An interface component can receive at least one geographic destination. A map generator can automatically create an enhanced schematic destination map utilizing a hierarchy of road sets to provide at least one route including at least one road to the geographic destination.