Patent ID: 9036000
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: G01C,G06F,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: associating, using one or more processors, a plurality of panoramas to corresponding positions on a road network graph, wherein each panorama comprises at least one image captured at a geographic location of the corresponding position; dividing, using the one or more processors, the road network graph into a plurality of selection paths, wherein each selection path comprises one or more road segments, each road segment being associated with a subset of multiple candidate panoramas of the plurality of panoramas; determining, using the one or more processors, characteristics of the multiple candidate panoramas, the characteristics including visual properties and the characteristics being prioritized such that a first type of characteristic is valued differently than a second type of characteristic; selecting, using the one or more processors, one of the multiple candidate panoramas associated with each position for interior portions of each road segment in each selection path, wherein the selecting is based at least in part on a highest priority characteristic; selecting, using the one or more processors, one of the plurality of panoramas for each intersection in each selection path; and publishing, using the one or more processors, identifiers for each panorama selected for each selection path or a selected intersection in the road network graph.