MOTION-CONTROLLED VIEWS ON MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES

Title:

MOTION-CONTROLLED VIEWS ON MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICES

Document Type and Number:

WIPO Patent Application WO/2009/155071

Kind Code:

A3

Abstract:

A computer-implemented visual navigation method includes providing from a wireless mobile device, over a public wireless network to a server located remotely from the wireless mobile device, information identifying a geographic location. The method also includes receiving in response, from the server, image data of digital images captured from an location at the geographic location, displaying the image data to a user of the mobile device as an image of an image space around the geographic locations, and panning the image within the image space automatically in response to user motion of the wireless mobile device.

Inventors:

CONWAY DAVID P (US)
BLISS ADAM (US)
PALEVICH JOHN H (US)
TSENG ERICK (US)

Application Number:

PCT/US2009/045522

Publication Date:

March 31, 2011

Filing Date:

May 28, 2009

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Assignee:

GOOGLE INC (US)
CONWAY DAVID P (US)
BLISS ADAM (US)
PALEVICH JOHN H (US)
TSENG ERICK (US)

International Classes:

H04W4/20; H04W4/02; H04W4/024; H04W4/21; H04W88/02

Foreign References:

KR20040104217A	2004-12-10
EP1612707A2	2006-01-04
US6956590B1	2005-10-18
US20070162942A1	2007-07-12

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