Trip Progress Bar Segment Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current navigation systems fail to provide users with a clear visualization of their overall trip progress and segment proportions, making it difficult to determine the completion status of each segment of a route.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that generate a route from a start to an end location, determine route proportions for each segment, and display segment progress to scale on a user device, using a progress style based on segment proportions, allowing users to see their overall and segment-specific progress in real-time.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If turn-by-turn directions are provided for the route, then navigation guidance is improved, but the user cannot determine the proportion of each segment of the trip
Solution Approach 1:
The route is divided into multiple segments, and each segment is represented by a separate visual element in the progress indicator. This segmentation allows the system to provide turn-by-turn directions while also visually representing the proportion of each segment through the relative sizes of the visual elements, thereby resolving the contradiction between navigation guidance and segment proportion information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a visual dimension (progress indicator with variable-sized elements) that complements the textual turn-by-turn directions. This additional visual dimension enables users to perceive segment proportions simultaneously with navigation guidance, without compromising either function.
2Ease of operation
If progress is shown along a mapped route, then real-time navigation is improved, but overall trip progress information is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges two types of progress information into a single integrated display: (1) progress along the mapped route shown through a progress indicator, and (2) overall trip progress shown through a progress bar. This combination allows users to simultaneously view real-time navigation progress and overall trip status, resolving the contradiction between detailed navigation and overall progress information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds another visual dimension (progress bar showing overall progress) to the existing map-based progress indicator. This additional dimension provides overall trip progress context without interfering with the real-time navigation guidance provided by the map-based indicator.
3Device complexity
If route segments are displayed with uniform size, then visual simplicity is maintained, but segment completion status cannot be determined
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making each segment's visual representation proportional to its actual length or estimated travel time. This means that segments with different characteristics (different lengths, different travel times) are represented with different visual weights, allowing users to immediately perceive segment completion status while maintaining visual simplicity through a consistent progress indicator format.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, computer programs, and user interfaces are provided to identify a route extending from a route start location to a route end location and including a plurality of route segments, determine a route type for each the plurality of route segments, and provide for display of a trip progress bar for the route. The trip progress bar including one more bar segments corresponding to one or more of the route segments, and each of the bar segments of the trip progress bar having a display characteristic indicative of the route type for the corresponding route segment such that a user can graphically identify a route segment type corresponding to each of the displayed bar segments of the trip progress bar.