As disclosed herein, a method for recognizing a previously-traveled route includes receiving recorded video data and a current video stream from one or more video capture devices, identifying one or more objects in the received video data to provide one or more recorded waypoints, identifying one or more visible objects in the received current video stream to provide one or more visible waypoints, comparing the visible waypoints to the recorded waypoints to provide one or more matching waypoints, and identifying a previously traveled path in the received current video stream corresponding to the one or more of the identified matching waypoints. A computer program product and computer system corresponding to the method are also disclosed.

An approach is provided for correlating and navigating between a live camera image and a prerecorded panoramic image. A mapping and augmented reality application correlates at least one live image with a prerecorded panoramic image, when a location of a device used to capture the at least one live image matches a location of a device used to capture the panoramic prerecorded image. The mapping and augmented reality application causes, at least in part, automatically alternating presentation on a screen of the device capturing the at least one live image, of the at least one live image and the prerecorded panoramic image.

An approach is provided for correlating and navigating between a live camera image and a prerecorded panoramic image. A mapping and augmented reality application correlates at least one live image with a prerecorded panoramic image, when a location of a device used to capture the at least one live image matches a location of a device used to capture the panoramic prerecorded image. The mapping and augmented reality application causes, at least in part, automatically alternating presentation on a screen of the device capturing the at least one live image, of the at least one live image and the prerecorded panoramic image.

An information processing system that acquires image data; distorts the acquired image data according to a predetermined distortion criterion; acquires an object image corresponding to an object that is at least partially obstructed in the acquired image; combines the object image with the distorted image data; and outputs the distorted image data combined with the object image.

In one aspect, a computer-implemented method is disclosed for providing geographic imagery. The method may include receiving, at a computing device, a request for a geographic image, wherein the geographic image depicts at least a portion of a selected location within a geographic area. In addition, the method may include presenting, with the computing device, the geographic image and superimposing a map including normalized travel way data associated with the geographic area over at least a portion of the geographic image.

A device mounted on a vehicle includes a processor configured to receive information for traveling guidance, which is generated based on an image of a specific point. The image of the specific point is captured by another vehicle, and the specific point is a point at which a traveling route of a different vehicle deviates from a guidance route.

A method for displaying a virtual object is disclosed, applied to an electronic device (10) having a display component (323) and a camera (324). The method includes: detecting an operation of starting an application by a user; in response to the operation, downloading a global submap and storing the global submap in a simultaneous localization and mapping SLAM system of the electronic device (10), where the global submap (123) is a submap corresponding to a location of the electronic device (10) in a global map; and displaying a location and a posture of the virtual object on the display component (323), where the location and the posture of the virtual object are obtained by performing pose calculation based on at least a video image collected by the camera (324) and the global submap (123).

The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for a route navigation, which relate to the technical fields of computer vision, image processing, augmented reality and the like. An implementation solution is: performing an augmented reality navigation on a current route based on real-time acquired GPS information of a terminal; acquiring SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) coordinates of the terminal; converting, in response to determining that the GPS information meets a preset positioning difference condition, the SLAM coordinates into calculated geographic coordinates; and performing an augmented reality navigation on the current route based on the calculated geographic coordinates.

A system and method of operation of a computing system comprising: determining a current road type for a current road segment based on a current location located along the current road segment; generating a current zoom level of a map including the current location on the current road segment based on the current road type; generating a camera view of the map based on a look ahead distance for the current road type; and communicating the current zoom level for displaying the current location along the current road segment.

Disclosed herein is a method for exactly estimating the current location of a user and calling a vehicle to the estimated location on the basis of a GPS coordinate of a user terminal and a coordinate of a feature point recorded by the user terminal. The method for calling a vehicle according to an embodiment includes transmitting a GPS coordinate of a terminal to a server when a service request signal is input by a user, receiving tile data corresponding to the GPS coordinate of a terminal from the server, recording an external image using a camera, and extracting a feature point from the recorded external image, identifying any one reference feature point matched with the feature point extracted from the external image among a plurality of reference feature points included in the tile data, determining a terminal coordinate on the basis of a coordinate of the identified reference feature point and on the basis of a change in a location of the reference feature point in the external image, and transmitting the determined terminal coordinate to the server, and receiving a vehicle coordinate of a vehicle for transportation allocated to the terminal coordinate from the server.