“Apple has been granted a patent (number 10.006,505) for rendering road signs during navigation,” Dennis Sellers reports for Apple World Today. “It involves the Maps app on its various devices, although this particular patent is more suitable for the iPhone and Apple Watch versions of the utility.”
“Per the patent, in presenting the road signs, Maps could differentiate the appearance of road signs at junctions that require a change of direction from road signs at junctions that don’t require a change of direction,” Sellers reports. “The app may perform processes that ensure that it arranges the road signs on the map in an ‘aesthetically pleasing’ manner.”
“In addition,” Sellers reports, “the navigation application of some embodiments won’t display too many road signs along the navigated route so that the route isn’t occluded by too many such signs.”
Read more, and see Apple’s patent application illustrations, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Part of the new, built-from-the ground-up Apple Maps app?
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Part of an augmented reality maps app? Perhaps an Apple Maps upgrade alone is not the real reason for all the mapping activity.
Let me guess…
Square with rounded edges?
… so thin you’d think they were two dimensional.
And as a Theronuclear Energy source.
I mean corners, edges would be Samsung.
If you read the original legal document, you well know “rounded corners” was part of the description of Apple’s iPhone device. Apple never claimed a patent on “rounded corners”. Yet idiots still repeat this false assertion. Apparently, it is the best they can come up with. Bogus.
What did I assert that was false here? Such a brand-boy.
Did they or did they not identify uh the iPhone as square with rounded corners as an identifying feature. You imbecile!
I imagine that the new maps could also cover over unwanted/distracting commercial signs by means of AR.
Alppel is inventing/createing a dang Package service to enclude::
Metflix.
Appelmusic.
Maple Map.
HomPode.
Gorgantic composting will help concerve the renviromrent.
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IChat/ Airbook
Man you are totally gorgantic with your words. Weeyard.
… was this another case of out of control auto-correct?
Gawd! 12 posts and nearly a half are applewhinylittlebitch!
Here’s one more…
Have a nice day.