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Adjustable and progressive mobile device street view

US8640020B2 · kind B2 · utility

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17Claims

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Assignee

Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

Billy Chen · Bellevue, US
Eyal Ofek · Redmond, US
Michael F. Cohen · Seattle, US
Johannes Peter Kopf · Hamburg, DE
Casey D. Stein · Snohomish, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 2, 2010
Grant date	Jan 28, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 26, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/957
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Intuitive and user-friendly user interface (UI) techniques are provided for navigating street view applications on a mobile device enabling users to view different angles and segments of available street level images. Additionally, retrieval and presentation of street view images are managed to mitigate delays in retrieval of desired images from a server over wireless connections through techniques such as textual representations, replacement views, scheduling image requests, and comparable ones.

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