Patent ID: 9250089
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G01C

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented vehicle navigation method using an electronic device, the method comprising: receiving a destination inputted by a user; positioning a current position of a vehicle using a positioning device of the electronic device; determining a route from the current position to the destination based on an electronic map stored in a storage device of the electronic device; extracting characteristic points of the determined route; acquiring a street view mapping of the determined route; extracting a marker of each of the characteristic points based on the street view mapping of the determined route using a image extraction method; outputting a prompt for the user when the vehicle arrives at positions corresponding to each of the characteristic points by recognizing the marker of each of the characteristic points from the street view mapping; acquiring scene images of the vehicle using a camera module; extracting image characteristics from the acquired scene images using the image extraction method; determining whether the vehicle arrives at a specified position by comparing the image characteristics of the acquired scene images and a marker of the specified position; when a similarity between one of the image characteristics of the acquired scene image and the marker of the specified position is greater than or equal to a first predetermined value, determining that the vehicle has arrived at the specified position; or when similarities between the image characteristics of the acquired scene images and the marker of the specified position are less than the first predetermined value, determining that the vehicle has not arrived at the specified position.