Disclosed are provided a navigation device or a method for overlaying a travel route, in which the position of other vehicles located on the travel route is considered, on an image obtained from a front-view camera, wherein a navigation device includes: a display device configured to display an image acquired from a front-view camera of a vehicle, to overlay a travel route on the displayed image, and to display the overlaid resultant image; and a processor configured to determine a travel route starting from a position of the vehicle acting as an ego vehicle, when a peripheral vehicle is located at the determined travel route, to determine a travel route along which the ego vehicle dodges or follows the peripheral vehicle on the basis of the position of the peripheral vehicle, and to display the determined travel route on the display unit.

Systems and methods for providing an augmented reality display of a virtual trail overlay that is aligned with a real world scene on a camera scene display of a mobile device, the mobile device being in networked communication via a network with a server and a trail database, the method comprising: generating three-dimensional map data to be displayed as a virtual trail overlay on a camera display of the mobile device, processing by a visualization application on the mobile device, such that an augmented reality virtual trail overlay is displayed on the camera display of the mobile device. Refreshing the virtual trail whenever the mobile device is moved.

A navigation system and method are described. A destination may be determined for a user. A starting location may be determined for the user using data obtained via a mobile device of the user. The user may be enabled to establish a route from the starting location to the destination using the mobile device. Route information that details the established route may be stored in a database for subsequent display to other users. In some embodiments, a value total for each user may be stored, and value may be added to the user's value total in response to the user establishing the route from the starting location to the destination.

A method for replaying route data with annotation for re-display comprises: recording a recorded-route-replay by a first user of a first automobile vehicle and saving the recorded-route-replay to a website; electing to trigger playback of the recorded-route-replay by a second user of a second automobile vehicle and entering a predetermined key word by the second user to trigger playback; contacting a website and downloading from the website GPS tagged pictures for a predetermined next trip travel distance of the second automobile vehicle; and retrieving one of the GPS tagged pictures when a GPS trigger location is reached during the trip of the second automobile vehicle and displaying the one of the GPS tagged pictures on an image screen of a head-up display of second automobile vehicle.

A method and a system for displaying at least one navigation instruction of a navigation system in a vehicle, a section of the vehicle's surroundings being recorded by a camera and displayed as an image sequence of the surroundings by a display unit, the navigation instruction being likewise displayed by the display unit, and, when the vehicle is moving, the position of the at least one navigation instruction within the image sequence of the surroundings being changed as a function of the movement of the surroundings occurring relative to the vehicle.

The present application relates to a method and apparatus for determining a preferred off-road vehicle path including a lidar operative to generate a depth map of an off road surface, a camera for capturing an image of the off road surface, a processor operative to receive the depth map, determine a vehicle path in response to the depth map and a host vehicle characteristic, combine a graphical representation of the vehicle path with the image to generate an augmented image, and a display to display the augmented image to a host vehicle operator.

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for monitoring a location of a client device associated with a transportation service and generating augmented reality images for display on the client device. The systems and methods use sensor data from the client device and a device localization process to monitor the location of the client device by comparing renderings of images captured by the client device to renderings of the vicinity of the pickup location. The systems and methods determine navigation instructions from the user's current location to the pickup location and select one or more augmented reality elements associated with the navigation instructions and/or landmarks along the route to the pickup location. The systems and methods instruct the client device to overlay the selected augmented reality elements on a video feed of the client device.

A route planning system applied in a server or in a mobile client device can plan a travel route according to client device location information. The route planning system includes an obtaining module, a selection module, and a calculation module. The obtaining module obtains the client device location information. The selection module determines a distance or scanning range according to the client device location information, and selects first pictures from the server or the client device of destinations or attractions which are within the scanning range, according to the location information of all the stored pictures. The calculation module calculates at least one route according to the location information of the first pictures. A route planning method is also provided.

Disclosed is a navigation system and method for controlling and integrating navigation routes. The system includes a server, a network, at least one control unit, and at least one virtual navigation device. The method includes steps of turning on the at least one virtual navigation device, downloading navigation images and contents, displaying the navigation images, receiving a control instruction, performing navigation, receiving a switch instruction, and switching a navigation route for implementing virtual navigation of integrated routes. Thus, the present invention provides the features of virtual reality and augmented reality, and the aspects of exclusive navigation and free discovery for the user to experience and easily switch the accompanying navigation mode and the free discovery mode.

An augmented reality (AR)-based route guidance method includes acquiring a driving image captured by an image capturing device of a vehicle which is running, acquiring route data to a destination of the vehicle, recognizing both side lane markings of a lane in which the vehicle is running from the acquired driving image, generating first route guidance linear data based on the recognized both side lane markings for a region in which both side lane markings are recognized in the driving image, generating second route guidance linear data using link linear data of the route data for a region in which both side lane markings are not recognized in the driving image, combining the first route guidance linear data and the second route guidance linear data to generate combined route guidance linear data, and displaying a route guidance object in AR using the generated combined route guidance linear data.