Google Inc.

Ryo Kawaguchi

Masanori Goto

Taj J Campbell

Takahiro Kosakai

Naoto Kaneko

Keiji Maekawa

Hector Ouilhet

Pawel Szczepanski

Koichi Suematsu

Takahito Hirano

Peter Foo

Kaori Kozai

Provided is a process of identifying a name and boundary of a neighborhood based on web documents, the process including: extracting, via one or more processors, an n-gram appearing in a plurality of web documents; associating the n-gram with geographic locations associated with the web documents from which the n-gram was extracted; identifying a neighborhood by identifying a cluster of geographic locations associated with the n-gram; determining a boundary for the neighborhood from the distribution of geographical locations in the cluster; determining a name for the neighborhood from the n-gram; and adding the name and boundary of the neighborhood to a geographic information system.

Detecting neighborhoods from geocoded web documents

An entry point card displayed within a mapping application viewport may display context and other data based on a calendar appointment and other data that the user might, predictably, want to search for upon opening the mapping application. Using appointment information from a calendar application, an entry point card might display a time the user must leave his current location in order to make the appointment on time. Or, using a history of the user's routine errands or trips, the entry point card may display predicted information. For example, the card may display an amount of time to get to work or other information.

System and method for displaying dynamic text content with a digital map

A user interface of a mobile computing device having a mobile operating system and a display device utilizes a picker application to facilitate selection of an activity. More specifically, the picker application presents at least one radial list of items to provide an effective process for selecting activities categorized amongst one or more locales or neighborhoods associated with a location.

Mobile user interface for a picker application

Growing community of inventors

Meguro-ku, Japan

Ryo Kawaguchi