Video Region Indicator for Seamless Map-to-Video Transition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing navigation systems do not effectively indicate the availability of video content related to a specific geographical location, making it difficult for users to seamlessly transition between map information and video footage.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus that determines an interaction navigational location, displays a perspective image of map information, and indicates the availability of video content at a video navigational location using a spatial video region indicator, allowing users to render video content when the locations correspond.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If video content is made available at navigational locations, then user experience and information availability are improved, but system complexity and device requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a video region indicator as an intermediary visual element that mediates between the map interface and video content. This indicator overlay provides video availability information without requiring the system to fundamentally change its architecture, thus resolving the contradiction by adding information display capability while maintaining relatively simple system structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a visual copy or representation of video content availability through the video region indicator, which overlays on the map interface. Instead of requiring full video playback infrastructure to be integrated into the navigation system, the patent uses visual indicators that copy or represent video availability information, reducing system complexity while improving information availability.
2Ease of operation
If video content is integrated into navigation system, then user experience is improved, but ease of operation worsens due to additional controls and interfaces
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the video region indicator directly with the map interface by overlaying it on top of existing map displays. This combining approach allows video content information to be accessed through the same interface users already interact with for navigation, improving ease of operation while avoiding the need for separate video playback interfaces or additional control mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The map interface serves multiple functions: it provides navigation information and simultaneously displays video region indicators that indicate video content availability. This multi-functionality approach allows the same interface to handle both navigation and video access, improving user experience without increasing interface complexity or requiring separate controls.
3Loss of information
If video region indicator is displayed on map interface, then video content availability is indicated, but clarity and readability of map information may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by placing video region indicators only at specific locations on the map where video content is available, rather than overlaying the entire map interface uniformly. This localized approach ensures that video indicators appear only where needed, maintaining map information clarity in areas without video content while providing video availability indication where relevant.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses partial action by displaying video region indicators selectively rather than comprehensively covering all map areas. The indicators are applied partially only to regions where video content exists, avoiding excessive overlay that would compromise overall map readability while still effectively indicating video availability in relevant locations.
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AI summary
A method comprising determining an interaction navigational location, causing display of a perspective image that depicts a view of a portion of map information from the interaction navigational location, causing display of a video region indicator that indicates that video content is available at a video navigational location, the video content depicting a view of a portion of the map information from the video navigational location, determining that the interaction navigational location has changed such the interaction navigational location corresponds with the video navigational location, and causing rendering of the video content based, at least in part, on the interaction navigational location corresponding with the video navigational location is disclosed.