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Brian J Andrich

Usama Mikael Hajj

Aaron A Reiner

Ian Leighton

Patrick James Coleman

Eric L Grundstrom

Wesley Yue

Marcel Van Os

Ronald Keryuan Huang

Christine B McGavran

Eleanor Cady Wachsman

Daniel R Delling

Richard B Warren

Lili Cao

Justin O'Beirne

Hyo Jeong Shin

Hengbin Luo

Nathaniel V Kelso

David Hodge

Nathan L Fillhardt

Ethan T Bold

Dennis Schieferdecker

Michael Wegner

Rami Khawandi

Justin M Strawn

Usama M Hajj

Tadayasu Sasada

Yun Jae Kim

Ryan W Apuy

Giovanni S Luis

Matthew B Ball

Christopher Y Tremblay

Syed Mohsin Hasan

Jonathan Paul McCabe

Joseph A Dean

Julie M Fortuna

Linghao Li

Adam B Findley

Jaime Chen

Leo Emile Jean Pierre Vallet

Sarah A Bergquist

YunJae Kim

Sebastian A Araya

Michael L Wiese

William Nevin Danner

Kirill Negoda

Sofia Boutahar

Nagaraj Hatti Veerarajan

Ting-Yuan Wu

Immanuel D Amirtharaj

Amanda Y Miyahira

Ishan Bhutani

Lukasz J Pasek

Eugene P Sturm

Benjamin R Dreyer

Aaron D Haney

Alexander B Cash

David Lam

Ray R Chen

Song Yang

Brian R Frick

Ellis Marshall Verosub

Eric J Albert

Vincent P Arroyo

Woon Yung Choi

William Andreas Viglakis

Eric D Schlakman

Brandon J Van Ryswyk

Kun Chen

J Paul McCabe

Christian J West

Ameya Ashok Limaye

Sean M Meiners

Erik G Sodervall

Supratik Maitra

Darious LeJuan Allen

Jin'ao Zhong

Daniel A Palm

Thomas Pajor

Sara E Marcus

Graydon Armstrong

Nick Provenzano

Alex Benevento

Samantha J Bennett

Sara A Bergquist

Scott G Jackson

Rachel A Smith

Aaron P Dennis

Richard A Small

Alexander J O'connell

Steven C Beeby

Ryan Dignard

Isil Uzum Vella

Razvan Bangu

Paul F Ahrens

Mathew B Ball

Roy E West

George Magharious

Christine B McGravan

Nicholas Provenzano

In some implementations, a computing device can present alight notifications to a user when the user (e.g., user device) is approaching a public transit stop where the user should depart the public transit vehicle the user is currently occupying. For example, a user may use a user device to generate a public transit route that includes a starting location, a sequence of public transit stops, and a destination location. While traversing the transit route, the user may need to exit public transit vehicle (e.g., to reach the destination location, to switch transit lines, etc.). The user device can identify transit stops along the route where the user should exit a transit vehicle and present notifications prompting the user to exit the transit vehicle at the upcoming stop as the user device approaches the identified transit stops.

Presenting transit alight notifications

A computing device can present a map user interface for users to suggest updates to entry point data for a place, such as points of interest to the user. For an entry point, the computing device can present an entry point indicator that remains in a fixed position on a map view. The user may move the map view as the entry point indicator remains fixed. In response to inputs, the computing device can adjust the map view, so that the fixed entry point indicator lies in a new position relative to the point of interest. The computing device can also insert an entry point indicator on the map view. In response to user inputs, the computing device can associate a location of the inserted entry point indicator with the location of an entry point. The computing device can send the entry point data changes to a server for implementation.

User feedback interfaces for map location entry points

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

In some embodiments, an electronic device present navigation routes from various perspectives. In some embodiments, an electronic device modifies display of representations of (e.g., physical) objects in the vicinity of a navigation route while presenting navigation directions. In some embodiments, an electronic device modifies display of portions of a navigation route that are occluded by representations of (e.g., physical) objects in a map. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of (e.g., physical) objects in maps. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents representations of (e.g., physical) objects in maps in response to requests to search for (e.g., physical) objects.

User interfaces for maps and navigation

Some embodiments of the invention provide several novel methods for generating a navigation presentation that displays a device navigating a route on a map. The method of some embodiments uses a virtual camera that, based on detected changes in the navigation context, dynamically modifies the way it captures portions of the map to produce different navigation scenes in the navigation presentation. To generate the navigation scenes, the method of some embodiments (1) identifies different sets of attributes that describe the different navigation contexts at different times during the navigation presentation, and (2) uses these different sets of attributes to identify different styles for operating the virtual camera. In some embodiments, the method uses an identified style to specify the virtual camera's positional attributes, which, in turn, define the portions of the map that the virtual camera identifies for rendering to produce several navigation scenes for a period of time (e.g., until the navigation context changes, or until the navigation presentation ends when the navigation context does not change again). During the navigation presentation, each time the navigation context changes, the identified set of attributes may change. This change, in turn, may cause the method of some embodiments to select a new style for operating the virtual camera. When the style for operating the virtual camera changes, the method of some embodiments modifies the way the virtual camera captures the portion of the map to render.

Grouping maneuvers for display in a navigation presentation

Some embodiments provide a map application that identities a transit route that includes one or more transit legs between a starting location and a destination location. In response to a request to start navigating the identified transit route, the map application of some embodiments provides a first display area for displaying a set of navigation instructions, each of which describes a transit maneuver that is associated with a transit leg of the transit route. The map application also provides a second display area for displaying a map region presentation associated with the navigation instruction that is displayed in the first display area.

Transit navigation

In some implementations, a computing device can present augmented reality (AR) labels in an AR video stream. For example, the computing device can obtain route information for a route requested by a user and can determine locations along the route for placing candidate AR labels. The computing device can determine the precise location of the computing device using camera depth information obtained in response to the user scanning the local real-world environment with a camera of the computing device. The computing device can select an AR label and/or label placement location for presentation in an AR video stream based on various criteria, including the distance between the candidate AR labels and the precise location of the computing device, priorities assigned to each candidate AR label, and/or whether a clear line of sight exists between the precise location of the computing device and the candidate AR label location.

Presenting labels in augmented reality

In some implementations, a computing device can proactively determine a destination and request traffic information for routes from a starting location to the destination. In some implementations, a computing device can identify some routes between a starting location and a destination as non-recommended routes and recommend other routes. In some implementations, a computing device can rank routes between a starting location and a destination based on automatically-determined user interest. In some implementations, a computing device can determine a user is familiar with a route and adjust the information presented to the user about the route accordingly.

Providing light navigation guidance

In some embodiments, an electronic device displays suggested routes based on the characteristics of respective vehicles. In some embodiments, an electronic device receives data for respective vehicles from a source external to the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device anonymizes a vehicle identifier and determines customized suggested routes using the anonymized vehicle identifier.

User interfaces for customized navigation routes

Some embodiments provide a map application that identities a transit mute that includes one or more transit legs between a starting location and a destination location. In response to a request to shirt navigating the identified transit route, the map application of some embodiments provides a first display area for displaying a set of navigation instructions, each of which describes a transit maneuver that is associated with a transit leg of the transit route. The map application also provides a second display area for displaying a map region presentation associated with the navigation instruction that is displayed in the first display area.

Presenting suggested routes based on local route ranking

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Brian J Andrich