Electric vehicle charging management methods and systems are provided. A server performs a charging scheduling operation for each electric vehicle charging station to determine a specific time point for each electric vehicle charging station to perform a charging operation in which the charging operation is to charge an electric vehicle coupled with the electric vehicle charging station. When the charging operation corresponding to each electric vehicle charging station is being performed, each electric vehicle charging station transmits charging information corresponding to the charging operation to the server through a network. The server determines whether the charging operation of specific electric vehicle charging station among the electric vehicle charging stations is abnormal based on the charging information received from each electric vehicle charging station, and generates a warning notification and sends the warning notification through the network when the charging operation of the specific electric vehicle charging station is abnormal.

The present disclosure relates to navigational systems, devices, and methods for preparing route guidance information that incorporates user needs—and ensures fulfilment of those needs under a variety of conditions. In particular, this disclosure relates to preparing route guidance information that ensures a user is directed along a route that includes stops where various needs such as e.g. medical, food, or water can be met while also minimizing traffic. Such a system may be useful, for example, when evacuating from a metro region in the face of an oncoming natural disaster such as a hurricane.

A method for enabling a route for automated driving operation of a vehicle involves enabling a route ahead of the vehicle for automated driving operation of the vehicle if it is determined, using a digital map, which is used during automated driving operation for landmark-based localization of the vehicle, that there are landmarks present along the route which, with regard to their suitability for longitudinal and transverse localization of the vehicle, fulfil requirements which are predefined according to a course of the route.

Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer storage media, for content delivery in real-time guided navigation. A device can be configured to identify location information for the device and provide navigation instructions to the device based on at least the location information and an identified destination. The device can access scheduling information indicating an availability of a user of the device, and determine based on the scheduling information, whether to provide content related to one or more places of interest. When it is determined to provide the content, the device can determine a timing for output of the content in relation to output of the navigation instructions.

A system for delivering content to a user based on geolocation may include a user device with a location sensor and a software application. The system may include a server, including executable instructions configured to execute a tour module. The server may include a data storage, including user data and tour data stored thereon. The tour data may include a point of interest (POI) data object, including location data and content data. The software application may be configured to obtain a location of the user device from the location sensor and send the location to the tour module. The tour module may be configured to determine, from the location of the user device, that the user device is within a geo-fence of the POI data object and send the content data to the software application. The software application may be configured to display the content data on the user device.

An embodiment augmented reality (AR)-based point of interest (POI) guide method includes performing a plane detection with respect to an actual image in an area around a POI, forming a grid in the area where the plane detection of the actual image is performed, and displaying an anchor and a highlight at a position of the POI based on the grid.

The present invention provides a route guidance apparatus for guiding a go-around route of a plurality of transit points, the apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire request information of a user and event information for each of candidates of the plurality of transit points; a selection unit configured to select possible round transit points among the candidates of the plurality of transit points in accordance with a matching degree between the request information and the event information; and a decision unit configured to decide a go-around route of the transit points selected by the selection unit.

Various embodiments of the present application relate to a system architecture that employs vector-based data structures to translate a vector space into at least two dimensions so as to reduce computational expense, and increase operational speed during a search in the vector-space of points of interest along a user's pre-planned route. Further, the vector-based data structures allow for dynamic re-evaluation and re-routing of the user's existing route in substantially real-time, based on user feedback data including distance, location, velocity, and time.

There is provided a handheld device for navigating about a selected geographical zone. The handheld navigating device includes a processor circuit with a screen on which an image representative of a geographical map of a selected geographical zone is displayed. The geographical map of the selected geographical zone includes representations corresponding respectively with points of interest having locations and categories. The geographical map is configured so that (a) at least part of the representations corresponding respectively with points of interest are clustered within at least one viewing area, (b) the at least one viewing area is distinguished by a visible pattern having both a selected appearance and a first visual state that do not reveal the locations and the categories of the points of interest. The handheld navigation device includes a geographical position locating subsystem for determining when a selected relationship exists between the user and one or more of the points of interest. Responsive to the selected relationship existing, the processor circuit changes the appearance of at least part of the visible pattern to both reflect that the at least one viewing area has been transformed from the first visual state to a second visual state and the extent to which the user has traversed the physical area.

A computing system for presenting on a mobile device pieces of content each connected to a geographic location is described. The facility plots visual indications of the pieces of content in a two-dimensional display with respect to an origin point representing a user geographic location. In particular, for each piece of content, the facility plots a visual indication at a point that is (1) in a direction from the origin point that corresponds to a compass direction from the user geographic location to the geographic location to which the piece of content is connected, and (2) at a distance from the origin point that corresponds to a predicted amount of time to travel from the user geographic location to the geographical location to which the piece of content is connected.