All the GPS navigators now feature 2D or 3D maps to help users navigate. But what if you are really bad at maps to begin with? Sometimes even those good at maps find the GPS instructions a little hard to follow. Someone from TomTom must have realized this problem as it seems that a patent has been filed last December depicting a solution which shows a navigation system using camera input to help users visualize the turning on the road as the user sees it.
Currently users are only shown maps with lines indicating where the roads are. What the patent proposes is to have a built-in camera capture the roads ahead and using a smart image recognition system which is able to distinguish streets, intersections and turns, provide the course on the road shown from the camera input. I am sure many of you are sitting at the edge of your seats now anticipating the day TomTom announces this breakthrough.
- From SlashGear.
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