Patent Document ID: 10145704
Application ID: 15131010
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of displaying digital images within features on a map, comprising: (a) receiving data identifying a geographic location and zoom setting; (b) selecting one or more geographic regions within a map area to be rendered on a display screen based on said geographic location, said zoom setting and map feature data for said map area; (c) receiving one or more digital images associated with said one or more geographic regions, wherein said one or more digital images were each captured by a respective camera and at the time of image capture either: (1) said camera was located within a respective geographic region, or (2) said camera was directed at a scene or object located within said respective geographic region, or (3) combinations of (1) and (2); (d) generating one or more pictorial subsets of said one or more digital images that respectively match one or more shapes of said one or more geographic regions, including geometrically adjusting said one or more pictorial subsets from said one or more digital images to match specific respective contours of each pictorial subset to said respective geographic region, within said map area to be rendered on said display screen; (e) rendering said map area on said display screen including overlaying said one or more matching pictorial subsets respectively onto said one or more geographic regions within said map area, (f) receiving a second zoom setting; (g) selecting a second set of one or more geographic regions within a second map area to be rendered on said display screen based on said geographic location, said second zoom setting and a second set of map feature data for said second map area; and (h) repeating steps (c), (d) and (e) for said second zoom setting, thereby rendering said second map area on said display screen including overlaying a second set of one or more matching pictorial subsets respectively onto said second set of one or more geographic regions within said second map area; wherein the generating of said pictorial subsets comprises cutting out a region of a digital image that matches a size and shape of a geographic region within said map.