Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-26
2006-12-26
Beaulieu, Y. (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Navigation
C701S208000, C701S211000, C725S051000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07155336
ABSTRACT:
A method and system are provided for collecting images of objects at geographic locations for publication in an online directory, such as online Yellow Pages. A camera and a GPS receiver, both receiving time information from a synchronized clock, are mounted on a vehicle. Time-stamped images captured by the camera and time-stamped geographic locations (e.g., longitude and latitude coordinates) determined by the GPS receiver are recorded. Each image is then associated with a geographic location based on corresponding respective time-stamps. Thereafter, each image is correlated with a street addresses based on each image's associated geographic location, for example by referring to a lookup table that correlates addresses with geographic coordinates. The address-correlated images may then be used in an online directory, where each listing (e.g., business) can be displayed with an image of an object (e.g., store front) taken at the address in the listing.
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Dorfman Barnaby M.
Gold Jonathan A.
Manber Udi
A9.com, Inc.
Beaulieu Y.
Christensen O'Connor Johnson & Kindness PLLC
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