Google Inc.

Rachel Elizabeth Inman

Jeremy Edelblut

Sean Askay

Gopal Shah

Joost Korngold

Marek Gorecki

Kasey Klimes

Brandon Jacob Montell

Anna Roth

Michael Edgcumbe

Alex Jacobo-Blonder

Dominik Philemon Kaeser

Zachary Gibson

Judy Zhao

Robert Carl Jagnow

Andre Le

Juan David Hincapie

Jingyi Fang

Joanna Kim

Morgane Sanglier

Brian Lawrence Ellis

Catherine Most

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for determining the orientation of a device based on visible and/or non-visible orientation cues. The orientation cues may be a geographically located objects, such as a park, body of water, monument, building, landmark, etc. The orientation cues may be visible or non-visible with respect to the location of the device. The device may use one or more image sensors to detect the visible orientation cues. Non-visible orientation cues may be associated with map data. Using the location of the orientation cue and the distance of the orientation cue to the device, the orientation of the device may be determined. The device may then provide an output indicating the orientation of the device.

Stable orientation cues for augmented reality (AR)

To provide audio information regarding locations within a geographic area, a client device provides an interactive three-dimensional (3D) display of panoramic street level imagery for a geographic area via a user interface. The panoramic street level imagery includes one or more landmarks. The client device receives a request for audio information describing a selected landmark within the interactive 3D display, and obtains the audio information describing the selected landmark from a server device in response to the request. Then the client device automatically presents the received audio information describing the selected landmark.

Immersive audio tours

The present disclosure is directed to providing a notification in association with an augmented reality (AR) view. In particular, one or more computing devices can generate, for display by at least one of the computing device(s), an interface depicting an AR view of at least a portion of a physical real-world environment. In accordance with aspects of the disclosure, based at least in part on detected movement of the at least one of the computing device(s), the computing device(s) can transition amongst multiple different stages of one or more elements included in the interface to notify a viewer of the interface to mind their situational awareness of the physical real-world environment.

Methods and systems for providing a notification in association with an augmented-reality view

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Rachel Elizabeth Inman