Patent ID: 8046167

Claim:
A machine-implemented method for providing navigational information based, at least partly, on non-photographic cues, the machine-implemented method comprising: automatically extracting a sequence of the non-photographic cues from at least one image of a geographic area, the automatically extracting comprising: segmenting physical entities appearing in at least one image of a geographic area based on at least one three-dimensional model, including a representation of the geographic area, to produce segmentation information, deriving color information with respect to the physical entities appearing in the at least one image based on the produced segmentation information, and producing and storing color cues based on the color information, the extracted sequence of non-photographic queues including the color cues; providing navigational information for traveling along a route from an origin to a destination, the navigational information including information based, at least partly, on the extracted sequence of non-photographic cues.