Patent ID: 8948788
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented visual navigation method, comprising: providing, by a wireless mobile computing device, over a wireless network to a server located remotely from the wireless mobile computing device, information that identifies a geographic location; receiving in response, from the server by the wireless mobile computing device, image data of digital images captured by an imaging system on the ground at the geographic location viewed horizontally outward from the imaging system; displaying, by the wireless mobile computing device, to a user of the wireless mobile device, at least a portion of a first image captured by the imaging system on the ground that presents a portion of an image space around the geographic location as viewed horizontally from the imaging system; detecting, by the wireless mobile computing device, a change in heading of the wireless mobile device corresponding to shaking of the wireless mobile computing device; and changing, by the wireless mobile computing device, a displayed portion of the image space by switching from the display of at least the portion of the first image to a display of a second image of the image space such that change appears to move forward in the image space from the display of at least the portion of the first image to the display of the second image automatically in coordination with the detected change in heading of the wireless mobile device corresponding to shaking of the wireless mobile computing device, wherein the first and second images are part of the digital images captured by the imaging system on the ground at the geographic location, and wherein the first and second images present different portions of the image space.