Patent Document ID: 8818716
Application ID: 13835252
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A vehicle-based computer-implemented method for retrieving information associated with a point of interest (POI), the method comprising: accessing, at a computing system, movement data representing a current speed of a vehicle; accessing location data identifying a current location and orientation of the vehicle; analyzing the movement data and the location data to find an upcoming micromapped region that the vehicle is likely to travel through; retrieving, from a POI data server, a micromap corresponding to the upcoming micromapped region, the micromap including information associated with one or more points of interest inside the upcoming micromapped region; storing the micromap in a local micromap storage; subsequent to storing the micromap, receiving a data signal representing an identifying gesture performed by a user inside the vehicle, the identifying gesture oriented in a direction and identifying an object exterior to the vehicle; performing gesture recognition on the data signal to determine a direction vector representing the direction of the identifying gesture; analyzing the direction vector and the location data to generate a target region corresponding to the object identified by the identifying gesture; retrieving, from the locally stored micromap, information associated with one or more points of interest located in the target region; and providing the retrieved information to the user, the retrieved information including information associated with the object identified by the identifying gesture.