Patent Document ID: 8164599
Application ID: 13150478
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: capturing an image of a map using a camera; associating the image with a geographic location; identifying, by a processor, an image of the Earth based on the geographic location; displaying the image of the map and the image of the Earth on a display of a client device such that the image of the map is proximate to the image of the Earth on the display; determining, by the processor, an orientation of the displayed image of the map with respect to the displayed image of the Earth based on information input into the client device by a user including the selection of a first set of corresponding locations between the image of the map and the image of the Earth and the selection of a second set of corresponding locations between the image of the map and the image of the Earth without requiring the user to visit multiple locations in the map image; generating, by the processor, an oriented map image based on the orientation; receiving information from a geographic positioning component of the client device; subsequent to determining the orientation and receiving the information from the geographic positioning component, refining the orientation of the oriented map image by using a set of images identified based on both the orientation and the information received from the geographic positioning component, without requiring the user to visit multiple locations in the map image; transmitting the oriented map image to a server; and transmitting the first set of corresponding locations and the second set of corresponding locations to the server.