Patent ID: 7509215

Claim:
A system for providing augmented directions while a vehicle is being driven from a start location to an end location, comprising: a direction database that contains an augmented map having actual media collected from actual locations and having annotations, the actual media including a video associated with actual locations within the augmented map, the video for an actual location including a capture speed indicating capture speed of a capture device at time of capture of the video, the annotations representing comments made by a person as directional assistance; a direction component that inputs a start and an end location and a user preference for a user relating to possible routes, generates initial augmented directions for a route between the start and the end location that include actual media and annotations, the actual media including video associated with locations along the route, the route between the start and the end location being different depending on the user preference of the user and current conditions along routes from the start location to the end location, and generates revised augmented directions for a different route between the start location and the end location factoring in current conditions along routes from the start location to the end location and a current location of a vehicle traveling from the start location to the end location; an output component that provides the initial and revised augmented directions to a playback device; and a mobile playback device that receives initial and revised augmented directions from the output component and plays back the augmented directions as the vehicle with the mobile playback device travels from the start location to the end location, the playing back of the augmented directions including outputting the annotations as directional assistance and playing the video associated with a current location of the vehicle at an adjusted playback rate to compensate for differences between travel speed of the vehicle and capture speed of the capture device so that the user can view on the video scenes from the current actual location of the vehicle, the current location of the vehicle being automatically determined using a device within the vehicle and provided to the direction component for generating revised augmented directions.