Patent ID: 11956609
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method of presenting navigation instructions for a route from a starting location to a destination location, the method implemented by a computing device, the method comprising:
determining that the computing device is traveling toward an upcoming maneuver of the route;
based on the determination, presenting, on a display, a first representation of a first navigation sign associated with the upcoming maneuver, the first representation having a first appearance;
while presenting the first representation, determining that a current location of the computing device is within a threshold distance of the upcoming maneuver; and
in response to the determination that the current location is within the threshold distance, generating a second representation of the first navigation sign by modifying the first representation of the first navigation sign to highlight the first navigation sign, the second representation having a second appearance that is different from the first appearance; and
presenting the second representation of the first navigation sign on the display;
wherein highlighting the first navigation sign comprises at least one of:
(a) modifying, in a first sequence, a brightness level for each display segment of a contiguous subset of a plurality of display segments of the first navigation sign from a first brightness level to a second brightness level;
(b) modifying the first representation of the first navigation sign in a second sequence that begins from a center location of the first navigation sign and extends outwards to a border of the first navigation sign;
(c) a rotation of the first navigation sign, or
(d) a movement of the first navigation sign toward and off a side of the display.