Patent ID: 9361283
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: G06F,G06T,G08G,G09G,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for displaying imagery, comprising: receiving at a computing device at least a portion of an image of a geographic area over a network interface, the image defining a three-dimensional space and depicting at least one object captured by a camera; presenting a viewport in the display of the computing device that displays at least a portion of the image; obtaining instructions to render a text annotation associated with the object depicted in the image, the instructions specifying text effects for the text annotation, the text effects being determined based at least in part on surface information data providing a geographic position of a surface of the object in the geographic area; and rendering a text annotation pursuant to the instructions with text effects such that the text annotation appears to be located in the three-dimensional space along at least a portion of the surface of the object depicted in the image, wherein the text annotation comprises at least a portion of travel directions; wherein the text annotation is interactive.