University of California

Roberto Manduchi

Orazio Gallo

Jonathan Lam

Viet Trinh

Fatemeh Mirzaei

A computer implemented method or system for creating a route for navigating a transit hub or plaza using an application executing on a user's mobile device. The application accesses a tessellated map comprising first tiles each including a different area of interest on the map; and second tiles including a walkable area connecting the different areas of interest. The application highlights one of the first tiles including one of the different areas of interest selected using input from the user; highlights one of the second tiles including a location of the mobile device on the map; and highlights a series of the second tiles linking the location to the one of the areas of interest. A method of creating the tessellated map is also disclosed.

Virtual tile routing for navigating complex transit hubs

A system for magnifying content including a display; a camera for acquiring a user's eye gaze direction onto a display so as to obtain gaze data; and a computer coupled to the display, wherein the computer maps the gaze data onto a desired location on the display, provides a center of magnification on the display, and moves the center of magnification onto the desired location so as to magnify the content on the display.

Gaze-contingent screen magnification control

A computer implemented method or system including a map conversion toolkit and a map Population toolkit. The map conversion toolkit allows one to quickly trace the layout of a floor plan, generating a file (e.g., GeoJSON file) that can be rendered in two dimensions (2D) or three dimensions (3D) using web tools such as Mapbox. The map population toolkit takes the scan (e.g., 3D scan) of a room in the building (taken from an RGB-D camera), and, through a semi- automatic process, generates individual objects, which are correctly dimensioned and positioned in the (e.g., GeoJSON) representation of the building. In another example, a computer implemented method for diagraming a space comprises obtaining a layout of the space; and annotating or decorating the layout with meaningful labels that are translatable to glanceable visual signals or audio signals.

Semantic interior mapology: a tool box for indoor scene description from architectural floor plans

Barcode decoding bypassing binarization is provided which relies on deformable templates to makes use of all the gray level information of each pixel in the barcode image. Parameterization of the deformable templates allow for efficiently performing maximum likelihood estimation independently on each barcode digit and enforcing spatial coherence across the barcode digits.

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Roberto Manduchi