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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2014
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
William Henry Steinmetz, Seattle, WA (US);
Riku Inoue, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kyle Jutte, San Fancisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/123 (2006.01); G08G 1/0968 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/0968 (2013.01); G01C 21/367 (2013.01); G01C 21/3655 (2013.01);
Abstract
To provide effective navigation directions to a user in an automotive environment, a system determines information related to navigating the user to a destination, determines whether a screen of the portable device currently is in a line-of-sight with the user and generates a navigation instruction based on the determined information. Generating the navigation instruction includes selecting a level of detail of visual information for the navigation instruction in view of whether the screen is in the line-of-sight with the user.