Patent ID: 9710946
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G01C,G06F,G06K,G06T,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for displaying a point of interest, comprising: acquiring a location of a target object; performing recognition processing on a street view image acquired at the location, to recognize text information arranged at a selected height from a road surface in the street view image; selecting a candidate point of interest from a point-of-interest (POI) database upon determining that the candidate point of interest matches the text information; marking the candidate point of interest in the POI database as a visible point of interest at the location; acquiring calculated geographical location information about the visible point of interest according to geographical location information about a collection site of the street view image and an azimuth angle from the collection site to the visible point of interest; verifying the visible point of interest according to the calculated geographical location information and standard geographical location information about the visible point of interest; replacing the standard geographical location information about the visible point of interest by the calculated geographical location information about the visible point of interest upon failure of said verifying; determining the visible point of interest at the location as a target point of interest; and displaying the target point of interest on an electronic map.