WO2021168623A1

WO2021168623A1 - Systems and methods for displaying a point of interest

Info

Publication number: WO2021168623A1
Application number: PCT/CN2020/076468
Authority: WO
Inventors: Tianyi ZHOU; Xiaogang Yan
Original assignee: Beijing Didi Infinity Technology And Development Co., Ltd.
Priority date: 2020-02-24
Filing date: 2020-02-24
Publication date: 2021-09-02
Also published as: CN111954875A

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for displaying a point of interest (POI). The methods may include determining a location of a terminal device; determining a target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device; and displaying, via a user interface, a first window of the target POI including first information associated with the target POI, wherein the first window of the target POI is displayed with the target POI as an anchor point and does not overlap with a POI symbol of the target POI and a location symbol of the location of the terminal device.

Description

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING A POINT OF INTEREST

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for map display, and more particularly, to systems and methods for displaying a point of interest (POI) on a map.

BACKGROUND

Map display, particularly displaying POIs on a map is increasingly popular. Some existing maps display POIs at a fixed position (e.g., a top left or top right corner) of a screen displaying a map. Users usually cannot obtain a precise position of POI according to the fixed position. For example, there is a restaurant at a south side and a north side of an east-west road, respectively. The two restaurants are both displayed at a top right corner of the screen displaying the map. When a user wants to go to one of the two restaurants, he/she cannot identify where the restaurant locates. Some existing maps often display detail information of POIs by overlapping a location symbol representing a current location of a user. Thus, the user may not identify the current location and road conditions around the current location, which affects safe driving. Other existing maps move the location symbol representing the current location of the user to avoid the detail information of POIs overlapping the location symbol, which makes the current location displayed inaccurate. Thus, it is desirable to provide systems and methods for automatically displaying detail information of POIs without overlapping location symbols of users.

SUMMARY

An aspect of the present disclosure introduces a system for displaying a POI. The system may include at least one storage medium including a set of instructions for displaying a POI, and at least one processor in communication with the storage medium. When executing the set of instructions, the at least one processor may perform the following operations including: determining a location of a terminal device; determining a target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device; and displaying, via a user interface, a first window of the target POI including first information associated with the target POI, wherein the first window of the target POI is displayed with the target POI as an anchor point and does not overlap with a POI symbol of the target POI and a location symbol of the location of the terminal device.

In some embodiments, an area of the first window of the target POI increases as a distance between the location of the terminal device and the target POI decreases.

In some embodiments, the first information includes at least one of a name of the target POI, a picture of the target POI, or a type of the target POI.

In some embodiments, the operations may further include: receiving, via the user interface, a user input associated with the first window of the target POI; and in response to receiving the user input, displaying, via the user interface, a second window including second information associated with the target POI.

In some embodiments, the second information includes at least one of: a name of the target POI, a picture of the target POI, a type of the target POI, a promotion associated with the target POI, or a comment of the target POI.

In some embodiments, the operations may further include: determining a next POI to be displayed with respect to the target POI based on the location of the terminal device; wherein an area of the POI symbol of the target POI decreases as a distance between the location of the terminal device and the target POI increases; and an area of a POI symbol of the next POI increases as the area of the POI symbol of the target POI decreases.

In some embodiments, the operations may further include: determining a display distance between the location symbol of the location of the terminal device and the POI symbol of the target POI; determining an area of a predetermined window of the target POI; determining whether the predetermined window of the target POI overlaps with the location symbol of the location of the terminal device based on the display distance and the area of the predetermined window of the target POI; in response to determining that the predetermined window of the target POI overlaps with the location symbol of the location of the terminal device, moving the predetermined window towards a direction away from the location symbol of the location of the terminal device until the predetermined window does not overlap with the symbol of the location of the terminal device; and displaying the predetermined window as the first window of the target POI.

In some embodiments, the POI symbol of the target POI represents a type of the target POI.

In some embodiments, the determining the target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device includes: determining at least one candidate POI associated with a route from a start location to a destination; and determining the target POI from the at least one candidate POI, wherein the target POI is within a predetermined distance from the location of the terminal device.

In some embodiments, the at least one candidate POI includes at least one of:a scenic spot, a playground, a restaurant, a shopping mall, a store, a gas station, a hotel, a parking lot, a bank, or a hospital.

According to another aspect of the present disclosure, a method for displaying a POI is provided. The method may include determining a location of a terminal device; determining a target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device; and displaying, via a user interface, a first window of the target POI including first information associated with the target POI, wherein the first window of the target POI is displayed with the target POI as an anchor point and does not overlap with a POI symbol of the target POI and a location symbol of the location of the terminal device.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, a non-transitory computer-readable medium, comprising at least one set of instructions compatible for displaying a POI, is provided. When executed by at least one processor of an electrical device, the at least one set of instructions may direct the at least one processor to perform the following operations including: determining a location of a terminal device; determining a target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device; and displaying, via a user interface, a first window of the target POI including first information associated with the target POI, wherein the first window of the target POI is displayed with the target POI as an anchor point and does not overlap with a POI symbol of the target POI and a location symbol of the location of the terminal device.

According to still another aspect of the present disclosure, a system for displaying a POI is provided. The system may include: a location determining module, configured to determine a location of a terminal device; a target POI determining module, configured to determine a target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device; and a displaying module, configured to display, via a user interface, a first window of the target POI including first information associated with the target POI, wherein the first window of the target POI is displayed with the target POI as an anchor point and does not overlap with a POI symbol of the target POI and a location symbol of the location of the terminal device.

Additional features will be set forth in part in the description which follows, and in part will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon examination of the following and the accompanying drawings or may be learned by production or operation of the examples. The features of the present disclosure may be realized and attained by practice or use of various aspects of the methodologies, instrumentalities and combinations set forth in the detailed examples discussed below.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present disclosure is further described in terms of exemplary embodiments. These exemplary embodiments are described in detail with reference to the drawings. These embodiments are non-limiting exemplary embodiments, in which like reference numerals represent similar structures throughout the several views of the drawings, and wherein:

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating an exemplary system for displaying a POI according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating exemplary hardware and/or software components of a computing device according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating exemplary hardware and/or software components of a mobile device according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary processing engine according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary process for displaying a POI according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating an exemplary map according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary process for displaying a POI according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram illustrating an exemplary map according to some embodiments of the present disclosure;

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary process for displaying a POI according to some embodiments of the present disclosure; and

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary process for determining a target POI according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The following description is presented to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use the present disclosure and is provided in the context of a particular application and its requirements. Various modifications to the disclosed embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the general principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments and applications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. Thus, the present disclosure is not limited to the embodiments shown but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the claims.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular example embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting. As used herein, the singular forms “a, ” “an, ” and “the” may be intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises, ” “comprising, ” “includes, ” and/or “including” when used in this disclosure, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.

These and other features, and characteristics of the present disclosure, as well as the methods of operations and functions of the related elements of structure and the combination of parts and economies of manufacture, may become more apparent upon consideration of the following description with reference to the accompanying drawing (s) , all of which form part of this specification. It is to be expressly understood, however, that the drawing (s) is for the purpose of illustration and description only and are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. It is understood that the drawings are not to scale.

The flowcharts used in the present disclosure illustrate operations that systems implement according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. It is to be expressly understood, the operations of the flowcharts may be implemented not in order. Conversely, the operations may be implemented in inverted order, or simultaneously. Moreover, one or more other operations may be added to the flowcharts. One or more operations may be removed from the flowcharts.

An aspect of the present disclosure relates to systems and methods for displaying a POI. To this end, the systems and methods may display detail information of the POI as an anchor point and the detail information of the POI neither overlaps with a symbol representing the POI nor overlaps with a symbol representing a current location of a user terminal. A display area of the detail information may increase as a distance between the current location and the POI. The shorter that the POI from the current location, the greater the display area of the detail information of the POI. When a user of the user terminal interacts with the displayed detail information, the systems and methods may further display more detail information of the POI. When the user moves towards a next POI of the current POI (the POI described above) , the display area of the current POI may decrease and a display area of a symbol of the next POI may increase as a distance between the current location and the current POI increase. In this way, the systems and methods of the present disclosure may automatically recommend POIs to users and displaying detail information of POIs without overlapping symbols of current locations. In addition, the information of POIs may be displayed from users for advertising, entertainment, or enjoyment.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an exemplary system 100 for displaying a POI according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. For example, the system 100 may be an online to offline service platform for providing services such as taxi-hailing, chauffeur services, delivery vehicles, carpool, bus service, driver hiring, shuttle services, online navigation services, good delivery services, etc. The system 100 may include a server 110, a network 120, a terminal device 130, and a storage 140. The server 110 may include a processing engine 112.

The server 110 may be configured to process information and/or data relating to displaying a POI. For example, the server 110 may determine a location of a terminal device of a user. As another example, the server 110 may determine a target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device. As still another example, the server 110 may display, via a user interface, a first window of the target POI including first information associated with the target POI. In some embodiments, the server 110 may be a single server, or a server group. The server group may be centralized, or distributed (e.g., server 110 may be a distributed system) . In some embodiments, the server 110 may be local or remote. For example, the server 110 may access information and/or data stored in the terminal device 130, and/or the storage 140 via the network 120. As another example, the server 110 may connect the terminal device 130, and/or the storage 140 to access stored information and/or data. In some embodiments, the server 110 may be implemented on a cloud platform. Merely by way of example, the cloud platform may be a private cloud, a public cloud, a hybrid cloud, a community cloud, a distributed cloud, an inter-cloud, a multi-cloud, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the server 110 may be implemented on a computing device 200 having one or more components illustrated in FIG. 2 in the present disclosure.

In some embodiments, the server 110 may include a processing engine 112. The processing engine 112 may process information and/or data relating to displaying a POI. For example, the processing engine 112 may determine a location of a terminal device of a user. As another example, the processing engine 112 may determine a target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device. As still another example, the processing engine 112 may display, via a user interface, a first window of the target POI including first information associated with the target POI. In some embodiments, the processing engine 112 may include one or more processing engines (e.g., single-core processing engine (s) or multi-core processor (s) ) . Merely by way of example, the processing engine 112 may be one or more hardware processors, such as a central processing unit (CPU) , an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) , an application-specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) , a graphics processing unit (GPU) , a physics processing unit (PPU) , a digital signal processor (DSP) , a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) , a programmable logic device (PLD) , a controller, a microcontroller unit, a reduced instruction-set computer (RISC) , a microprocessor, or the like, or any combination thereof.

The network 120 may facilitate exchange of information and/or data. In some embodiments, one or more components of the system 100 (e.g., the server 110, the terminal device 130, and the storage 140) may transmit information and/or data to other component (s) in the system 100 via the network 120. For example, the server 110 may obtain location information from the terminal device 130 via the network 120. As another example, the server 110 may direct the terminal device 130 to display information with respect to a POI via the network 120. In some embodiments, the network 120 may be any type of wired or wireless network, or combination thereof. Merely by way of example, the network 120 may be a cable network, a wireline network, an optical fiber network, a telecommunications network, an intranet, an Internet, a local area network (LAN) , a wide area network (WAN) , a wireless local area network (WLAN) , a metropolitan area network (MAN) , a wide area network (WAN) , a public telephone switched network (PSTN) , a Bluetooth network, a ZigBee network, a near field communication (NFC) network, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the network 120 may include one or more network access points. For example, the network 120 may include wired or wireless network access points such as base stations and/or internet exchange points 120-1, 120-2, …, through which one or more components of the system 100 may be connected to the network 120 to exchange data and/or information between them.

The terminal device 130 may be any electronic device used by a user. In some embodiments, the terminal device 130 may be a mobile device 130-1, a tablet computer 130-2, a laptop computer 130-3, a desktop computer 130-4, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the mobile device 130-1 may be a wearable device, a smart mobile device, a virtual reality device, an augmented reality device, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the wearable device may be a smart bracelet, a smart footgear, a smart glass, a smart helmet, a smartwatch, a smart clothing, a smart backpack, a smart accessory, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the smart mobile device may be a smartphone, a personal digital assistant (PDA) , a gaming device, a navigation device, a point of sale (POS) device, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the virtual reality device and/or the augmented reality device may be a virtual reality helmet, a virtual reality glass, a virtual reality patch, an augmented reality helmet, an augmented reality glass, an augmented reality patch, or the like, or any combination thereof. For example, the virtual reality device and/or the augmented reality device may be a Google Glass ^TM, a RiftCon ^TM, a Fragments ^TM, a Gear VR ^TM, etc. In some embodiments, the desktop computer 130-4 may be an onboard computer, an onboard television, a vehicle-mounted device, etc.

In some embodiments, the terminal device 130 may be a device with positioning technology for locating the position of the terminal device 130. The positioning technology used in the present disclosure may be a global positioning system (GPS) , a global navigation satellite system (GLONASS) , a compass navigation system (COMPASS) , a Galileo positioning system, a quasi-zenith satellite system (QZSS) , a wireless fidelity (WiFi) positioning technology, or the like, or any combination thereof. One or more of the above positioning technologies may be used interchangeably in the present disclosure.

In some embodiments, the terminal device 130 may further include at least one user interface and at least one network port. The at least one user interface may be configured to receive user interaction or display information for the user of the terminal device 130. The at least one network port may be configured to send information to and/or receive information from one or more components in the system 100 (e.g., the server 110, the storage 140) via the network 120. In some embodiments, the terminal device 130 may be implemented on a computing device 200 having one or more components illustrated in FIG. 2, or a mobile device 300 having one or more components illustrated in FIG. 3 in the present disclosure.

The storage 140 may store data and/or instructions. For example, the storage 140 may store data obtained from the terminal device 130 (e.g., location information, user inputs, etc. ) . As another example, the storage 140 may store information with respect to the POI. As still another example, the storage 140 may store data and/or instructions that the server 110 may execute or use to perform exemplary methods described in the present disclosure. In some embodiments, the storage 140 may be a mass storage, a removable storage, a volatile read-and-write memory, a read-only memory (ROM) , or the like, or any combination thereof. Exemplary mass storage may include a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a solid-state drive, etc. Exemplary removable storage may include a flash drive, a floppy disk, an optical disk, a memory card, a zip disk, a magnetic tape, etc. Exemplary volatile read-and-write memory may include a random-access memory (RAM) . Exemplary RAM may include a dynamic RAM (DRAM) , a double date rate synchronous dynamic RAM (DDR SDRAM) , a static RAM (SRAM) , a thyristor RAM (T-RAM) , and a zero-capacitor RAM (Z-RAM) , etc. Exemplary ROM may include a mask ROM (MROM) , a programmable ROM (PROM) , an erasable programmable ROM (EPROM) , an electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM) , a compact disk ROM (CD-ROM) , and a digital versatile disk ROM, etc. In some embodiments, the storage 140 may be implemented on a cloud platform. Merely by way of example, the cloud platform may be a private cloud, a public cloud, a hybrid cloud, a community cloud, a distributed cloud, an inter-cloud, a multi-cloud, or the like, or any combination thereof.

In some embodiments, the storage 140 may include at least one network port to communicate with other devices in the system 100. For example, the storage 140 may be connected to the network 120 to communicate with one or more components of the system 100 (e.g., the server 110, the terminal device 130) via the at least one network port. One or more components in the system 100 may access the data or instructions stored in the storage 140 via the network 120. In some embodiments, the storage 140 may be directly connected to or communicate with one or more components in the system 100 (e.g., the server 110, the terminal device 130) . In some embodiments, the storage 140 may be part of the server 110.

In some embodiments, one or more components of the system 100 (e.g., the server 110, the terminal device 130, and the storage 140) may communicate with each other in form of electronic and/or electromagnetic signals, through wired and/or wireless communication. In some embodiments, the system 100 may further include at least one data exchange port. The at least one exchange port may be configured to receive information and/or send information relating to displaying the POI (e.g., in form of electronic signals and/or electromagnetic signals) between any electronic devices in the system 100. In some embodiments, the at least one data exchange port may be one or more of an antenna, a network interface, a network port, or the like, or any combination thereof. For example, the at least one data exchange port may be a network port connected to the server 110 to send information thereto and/or receive information transmitted therefrom.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating exemplary hardware and software components of a computing device 200 on which the server 110, and/or the terminal device 130 may be implemented according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. For example, the processing engine 112 may be implemented on the computing device 200 and configured to perform functions of the processing engine 112 disclosed in this disclosure.

The computing device 200 may be used to implement a system 100 for the present disclosure. The computing device 200 may be used to implement any component of system 100 that performs one or more functions disclosed in the present disclosure. For example, the processing engine 112 may be implemented on the computing device 200, via its hardware, software program, firmware, or a combination thereof. Although only one such computer is shown, for convenience, the computer functions relating to the online to offline service as described herein may be implemented in a distributed fashion on a number of similar platforms, to distribute the processing load.

The computing device 200, for example, may include COM ports 250 connected to and from a network connected thereto to facilitate data communications. The COM port 250 may be any network port or data exchange port to facilitate data communications. The computing device 200 may also include a processor (e.g., the processor 220) , in the form of one or more processors (e.g., logic circuits) , for executing program instructions. For example, the processor may include interface circuits and processing circuits therein. The interface circuits may be configured to receive electronic signals from a bus 210, wherein the electronic signals encode structured data and/or instructions for the processing circuits to process. The processing circuits may conduct logic calculations, and then determine a conclusion, a result, and/or an instruction encoded as electronic signals. The processing circuits may also generate electronic signals including the conclusion or the result and a triggering code. In some embodiments, the trigger code may be in a format recognizable by an operation system (or an application installed therein) of an electronic device (e.g., the terminal device 130) in the system 100. For example, the trigger code may be an instruction, a code, a mark, a symbol, or the like, or any combination thereof, that can activate certain functions and/or operations of a mobile phone or let the mobile phone execute a predetermined program (s) . In some embodiments, the trigger code may be configured to rend the operation system (or the application) of the electronic device to generate a presentation of the conclusion or the result (e.g., information of a POI) on an interface of the electronic device. Then the interface circuits may send out the electronic signals from the processing circuits via the bus 210.

The exemplary computing device may include the internal communication bus 210, program storage and data storage of different forms including, for example, a disk 270, and a read-only memory (ROM) 230, or a random access memory (RAM) 240, for various data files to be processed and/or transmitted by the computing device. The exemplary computing device may also include program instructions stored in the ROM 230, RAM 240, and/or other type of non-transitory storage medium to be executed by the processor 220. The methods and/or processes of the present disclosure may be implemented as the program instructions. The exemplary computing device may also include operating systems stored in the ROM 230, RAM 240, and/or other type of non-transitory storage medium to be executed by the processor 220. The program instructions may be compatible with the operating systems for providing the online to offline service. The computing device 200 also includes an I/O component 260, supporting input/output between the computer and other components. The computing device 200 may also receive programming and data via network communications.

Merely for illustration, only one processor is illustrated in FIG. 2. Multiple processors are also contemplated; thus, operations and/or method steps performed by one processor as described in the present disclosure may also be jointly or separately performed by the multiple processors. For example, if in the present disclosure the processor of the computing device 200 executes both step A and step B, it should be understood that step A and step B may also be performed by two different processors jointly or separately in the computing device 200 (e.g., the first processor executes step A and the second processor executes step B, or the first and second processors jointly execute steps A and B) .

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating exemplary hardware and/or software components of an exemplary mobile device 300 on which the terminal device 130 may be implemented according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

As illustrated in FIG. 3, the mobile device 300 may include a communication platform 310, a display 320, a graphics processing unit (GPU) 330, a central processing unit (CPU) 340, an I/O 350, a memory 360, and a storage 390. The CPU may include interface circuits and processing circuits similar to the processor 220. In some embodiments, any other suitable component, including but not limited to a system bus or a controller (not shown) , may also be included in the mobile device 300. In some embodiments, a mobile operating system 370 (e.g., iOS ^TM, Android ^TM, Windows Phone ^TM, etc. ) and one or more applications 380 may be loaded into the memory 360 from the storage 390 in order to be executed by the CPU 340. The applications 380 may include a browser or any other suitable mobile apps for receiving and rendering information relating to the route planning service. User interactions with the information stream may be achieved via the I/O devices 350 and provided to the processing engine 112 and/or other components of the system 100 via the network 120.

To implement various modules, units, and their functionalities described in the present disclosure, computer hardware platforms may be used as the hardware platform (s) for one or more of the elements described herein (e.g., the system 100, and/or other components of the system 100 described with respect to FIGs. 1-10) . The hardware elements, operating systems and programming languages of such computers are conventional in nature, and it is presumed that those skilled in the art are adequately familiar therewith to adapt those technologies to provide a reliability of passing time for a target candidate path as described herein. A computer with user interface elements may be used to implement a personal computer (PC) or other type of work station or terminal device, although a computer may also act as a server if appropriately programmed. It is believed that those skilled in the art are familiar with the structure, programming and general operation of such computer equipment and as a result the drawings should be self-explanatory.

One of ordinary skill in the art would understand that when an element of the system 100 performs, the element may perform through electrical signals and/or electromagnetic signals. For example, when a server 110 processes a task, such as displaying a first window of a target POI, the server 110 may operate logic circuits in its processor to process such task. When the server 110 completes determining the target POI, the processor of the server 110 may generate electrical signals encoding the first window of the target POI. The processor of the server 110 may then send the electrical signals to at least one data exchange port of a target system associated with the server 110. The server 110 communicates with the target system via a wired network, the at least one data exchange port may be physically connected to a cable, which may further transmit the electrical signals to an input port (e.g., an information exchange port) of the terminal device 130. If the server 110 communicates with the target system via a wireless network, the at least one data exchange port of the target system may be one or more antennas, which may convert the electrical signals to electromagnetic signals. Within an electronic device, such as the terminal device 130, and/or the server 110, when a processor thereof processes an instruction, sends out an instruction, and/or performs an action, the instruction and/or action is conducted via electrical signals. For example, when the processor retrieves or saves data from a storage medium (e.g., the storage 140) , it may send out electrical signals to a read/write device of the storage medium, which may read or write structured data in the storage medium. The structured data may be transmitted to the processor in the form of electrical signals via a bus of the electronic device. Here, an electrical signal may be one electrical signal, a series of electrical signals, and/or a plurality of discrete electrical signals.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary processing engine 112 according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. As illustrated in FIG. 4, the processing engine 112 may include a location determining module 410, a target POI determining module 420, a displaying module 430, an input receiving module 440, a next POI determining module 450, and an overlap determining module 460.

The location determining module 410 may be configured to determine a location of a terminal device 130. In some embodiments, the location of the terminal device 130 may be a current location of the terminal device 130 or a designated location designated by the user of the terminal device 130.

The target POI determining module 420 may be configured to determine a target POI. In some embodiments, the target POI determining module 420 may determine the target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device 130. For example, the target POI determining module 420 may determine at least one candidate POI associated with a route from a start location to a destination and determine the target POI from the at least one candidate POI based on the location of the terminal device 130. As another example, the target POI determining module 420 may determine at least one candidate POI associated with the location of the terminal device 130, and select a POI from the at least one candidate POI as the target POI according to a predetermined condition.

The displaying module 430 may be configured to display, via a user interface, information relating to the location, the target POI, the at least one candidate POI, etc. For example, the displaying module 430 may display a first window of the target POI including first information associated with the target POI. As another example, the displaying module 430 may display a second window including second information associated with the target POI. As still another example, the displaying module 430 may display a location symbol of the location, a POI symbol of each of the at least one candidate POI, a POI symbol of the target POI, a map, or the like, or any combination thereof.

The input receiving module 440 may be configured to receive user input from a user of the terminal device 130. For example, the input receiving module 440 may receive, via the user interface, a user input associated with the first window of the target POI. As another example, the input receiving module 440 may receive, via the user interface, a user input associated with the second window of the target POI. As still another example, the input receiving module 440 may receive, via the user interface, a user input associated with map.

The next POI determining module 450 may be configured to determine a next POI to be displayed with respect to the target POI. For example, the next POI determining module 450 may determine the next POI based on the location of the terminal device.

The overlap determining module 460 may be configured to determine whether the predetermined window overlaps with the location symbol of the location of the terminal device 130. For example, the overlap determining module 460 may determine a display distance between the location symbol of the location of the terminal device 130 and the POI symbol of the target POI and an area of a predetermined window of the target POI. As another example, the overlap determining module 460 may determine whether the predetermined window overlaps with the location symbol of the location of the terminal device 130 based on the display distance and the area of the predetermined window of the target POI. As still another example, the overlap determining module 460 may move the predetermined window towards a direction away from the location symbol of the location of the terminal device 130 until the predetermined window does not overlap with the symbol of the location of the terminal device 130.

The modules in the processing engine 112 may be connected to or communicate with each other via a wired connection or a wireless connection. The wired connection may be a metal cable, an optical cable, a hybrid cable, or the like, or any combination thereof. The wireless connection may be a Local Area Network (LAN) , a Wide Area Network (WAN) , a Bluetooth, a ZigBee, a Near Field Communication (NFC) , or the like, or any combination thereof. Two or more of the modules may be combined into a single module, and any one of the modules may be divided into two or more units. For example, the target POI determining module 420 and the next POI determining module 450 may be integrated as a POI determining module to determine both the target POI and the next POI with respect to the target POI. As another example, the processing engine 112 may include a storage module (not shown) used to store data and/or information relating to the route planning service.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary process 500 for displaying a POI according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. The process 500 may be executed by the system 100. For example, the process 500 may be implemented as a set of instructions (e.g., an application) stored in the storage ROM 230 or RAM 240. The processor 220 may execute the set of instructions, and when executing the instructions, it may be configured to perform the process 500. The operations of the illustrated process presented below are intended to be illustrative. In some embodiments, the process 500 may be accomplished with one or more additional operations not described and/or without one or more of the operations discussed. Additionally, the order in which the operations of the process as illustrated in FIG. 5 and described below is not intended to be limiting.

In 510, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the location determining module 410) may determine a location of a terminal device 130.

In some embodiments, the location of the terminal device 130 may be a current location of the terminal device 130. In some embodiments, the terminal device 130 may generate positioning signals according to the positioning technology of the terminal device 130 and send the positioning signals to the processing engine 112 vie the network 120. The processing engine 112 may determine the location of the terminal device 130 based on the positioning signals. In some embodiments, the location of the terminal device 130 may be a designated location. For example, a user of the terminal device 130 may designate a location on a map displayed on a screen of the terminal device 130. The processing engine 112 may obtain the location from the terminal device 130.

In 520, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the target POI determining module 420) may determine a target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device 130.

In some embodiments, the target POI may be a point location or a place location that is automatically displayed with detail information on a map in response to a determination of the location of the terminal device 130. In some embodiments, the map may be displayed in an application (e.g., a map application, a navigation application, an online taxi application, etc. ) installed in the terminal device 130. For example, the user may input a start location and a destination in the application. The processing engine 112 may determine at least one route from the start location to the destination, and display the at least one route and the location (e.g., the current location) of the terminal device 130 on the map. The processing engine 112 may determine a plurality of candidate POIs along the route or located within a first predetermined distance from the route. The target POI may be selected from the plurality of candidate POIs. For example, the processing engine 112 may select a POI that is within a second predetermined distance from the location of the terminal device 130 from the plurality of candidate POIs as the target POI and display the target POI. As another example, the processing engine 112 may select a POI that has the shortest distance from the location of the terminal device 130 from the plurality of candidate POIs as the target POI and display the target POI. In some embodiments, the processing engine 112 may determine at least one candidate POI that is within a third predetermined distance from the location of the terminal device 130. The processing engine 112 may select a POI that satisfies a first predetermined condition from the at least one candidate POI as the target POI and display the target POI. For example, the processing engine 112 may select a POI that has the shortest distance from the location of the terminal device 130 from the at least one candidate POI as the target POI and display the target POI. In some embodiments, the first predetermined distance, the second predetermined distance, the third predetermined distance, and the first predetermined condition may be predetermined and stored in a storage device of the system 100 (e.g., the storage 140, the ROM 230, the RAM 240, etc. ) , or determined by the system 100 or an operator thereof according to different application scenarios. In some embodiments, the process for determining the target POI may be found elsewhere (e.g., FIG. 10 and the description thereof) of the present disclosure.

In some embodiments, a candidate POI may be a specific point location that may be useful or interesting for the user of the terminal device 130. In some embodiments, the candidate POI may include a plurality of types. For example, the candidate POI may include a scenic spot, a playground, a restaurant, a shopping mall, a store, a gas station, a hotel, a parking lot, a bank, a hospital, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the plurality of candidate POIs may be displayed on the map with a POI symbol. The POI symbol may represent a type of a candidate POI. In some embodiments, the POI symbol may be an indication (e.g., a picture, a label, an alphabet, etc. ) that represents the type of the candidate POI.

In 530, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the displaying module 430) may display, via a user interface, a first window of the target POI.

In some embodiments, the first window may include first information associated with the target POI. In some embodiments, the first information may include first detail information of the target POI. For example, the first information may include a name of the target POI, a picture of the target POI, a type of the target POI, a promotion associated with the target POI, a comment of the target POI, an introduction of the target POI, a recommend reason of the target POI, a key point of the target POI, or the like, or any combination thereof.

In some embodiments, the first window of the target POI may be displayed with the target POI as an anchor point. For example, the user of the terminal device 130 may interact with the first window (e.g., click on or touch the first window) to view more information of the target POI. In some embodiments, the first window may be any shape. For example, the first window may include a rectangular shape, a square shape, a circular shape, a heart shape, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, an area of the first window may be variable during displaying. For example, the area of the first window of the target POI may increase as a distance between the location of the terminal device 130 and the target POI decreases. The shorter distance that the location from the target POI, the greater the area of the first window. As another example, the area of the first window of the target POI may decrease as the distance between the location of the terminal device 130 and the target POI increases. The longer distance that the location from the target POI, the smaller the area of the first window. When the location is at the shortest distance from the target POI, the first window may be displayed in a maximum area. In some embodiments, the maximum area may be predetermined and stored in a storage device of the system 100 (e.g., the storage 140, the ROM 230, the RAM 240, etc. ) , or determined by the system 100 or an operator thereof according to different application scenarios.

In some embodiments, the processing engine 112 may display, via the user interface, a POI symbol of the target POI. In some embodiments, the POI symbol of the target POI may represent a type of the target POI. For example, the target POI may include a type of a scenic spot, a playground, a restaurant, a shopping mall, a store, a gas station, a hotel, a parking lot, a bank, a hospital, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the POI symbol of the target POI may be an indication (e.g., a picture, a label, an alphabet, etc. ) that represents the type of the target POI.

In some embodiments, the processing engine 112 may display, via the user interface, a location symbol of the location of the terminal device 130. In some embodiments, the location symbol may indicate a position on the map where the terminal device locates. In some embodiments, the location symbol of the location may be an indication (e.g., a picture, a label, an arrow, a circle, etc. ) . In some embodiments, the location symbol may be movable as the terminal device 130 moves.

In some embodiments, the first window of the target POI may not overlap with the POI symbol of the target POI and the location symbol of the location of the terminal device 130. In some embodiments, the map may display the location symbol of the location, the POI symbol of the target POI, the first window of the target POI, a route that the processing engine 112 navigates for the terminal device 130, a location symbol of the start location, a location symbol of the destination, and the POI symbols of the plurality of candidate POIs. The first window of the target POI may not overlap with any one of the location symbol of the location, the POI symbol of the target POI, the route that the processing engine 112 navigates for the terminal device 130, the location symbol of the start location, the location symbol of the destination, and the POI symbols of the plurality of candidate POIs.

In some embodiments, as the terminal device 130 moves, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the next POI determining module 450) may determine a next POI to be displayed with respect to the target POI based on the location of the terminal device. For example, when the terminal device 130 moves along the route, the location (e.g., the current location) of the terminal device 130 may be away from the target POI and close to the next POI of the target POI. The next POI may be a new target POI determined according to operation 520 described in the present disclosure. In some embodiments, an area of the POI symbol of the target POI may decrease as the distance between the location of the terminal device and the target POI increases. The area of the POI symbol of the target POI may be maximum when the distance between the location of the terminal device and the target POI is minimum. In some embodiments, an area of a POI symbol of the next POI may increase as the area of the POI symbol of the target POI decreases. In some embodiments, the area of a POI symbol of the next POI may be the maximum when the area of the POI symbol of the target POI decreases to 0 (i.e., the POI symbol of the target POI disappears) .

In some embodiments, the user interface may be part of the terminal device 130. For example, the terminal device 130 may be a mobile device of the user, and the user interface may be a screen of the mobile device. The user may send a navigation request to the processing engine 112. During the navigation, the processing engine 112 may display the location symbol of the location of the mobile device, the POI symbol of the target POI, and the first window of the target POI on the screen of the mobile device. As another example, the user interface may be part of a vehicle-mounted device. For example, the user may send a taxi request to the processing engine 112 using the mobile device. The processing engine 112 may arrange a vehicle to the user based on the taxi request. The processing engine 112 may direct the vehicle-mounted device (e.g., a vehicle-mounted screen, a vehicle-mounted computer, etc. ) of the vehicle to display the location symbol of the location of the mobile device, the POI symbol of the target POI, and the first window of the target POI on the screen of the vehicle-mounted device.

It should be noted that the above description is merely provided for the purposes of illustration, and not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. For persons having ordinary skills in the art, multiple variations and modifications may be made under the teachings of the present disclosure. For example, operation 530 may be divided into three steps for displaying the first window of the target POI, the POI symbol of the target POI, and the location symbol of the location of the terminal device 130, respectively. However, those variations and modifications do not depart from the scope of the present disclosure.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating an exemplary map according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 6, the map may display a start location 610 (represented as “S” in a black circle) , a destination 620 (represented as “D” in a black circle) of a user of a terminal device 130, and a route 630 (represented as black lines) from the start location 610 to the destination 620. The processing engine 112 may determine a plurality of candidate POIs and display POI symbols 640 of the plurality of candidate POIs along the route 630 or located within a first predetermined distance from the route 630. Different POI symbols may represent different types of POI. For example, as shown in FIG. 6, a wooden horse may represent a playground, and a tree may represent a scenic spot. The processing engine 112 may determine a location of the terminal device 130 and display a location symbol 650 of the location. The processing engine 112 may determine the Water Cube as a target POI within a second predetermined from the location and display a POI symbol 660 and a first window 670 of the Water Cube. As shown in FIG. 6, an area of the POI symbol 660 of the Water Cube (i.e., the target POI) may be greater than an area of a POI symbol 640 of a candidate POI. The first window 670 may include first information including a picture of the Water Cube, a name of the Water Cube, and a recommend reason (e.g., popular) of the Water Cube. The first window 670 of the target POI may be displayed an anchor point, and may not overlap with the POI symbol 660 of the Water Cube (i.e., the target POI) , the location symbol 650 of the location, and the route 630.

It should be noted that FIG. 6 is merely provided for the purposes of illustration, and not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. For persons having ordinary skills in the art, multiple variations and modifications may be made under the teachings of the present disclosure.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary process 700 for displaying a POI according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. The process 700 may be executed by the system 100. For example, the process 700 may be implemented as a set of instructions (e.g., an application) stored in the storage ROM 230 or RAM 240. The processor 220 may execute the set of instructions, and when executing the instructions, it may be configured to perform the process 700. The operations of the illustrated process presented below are intended to be illustrative. In some embodiments, the process 700 may be accomplished with one or more additional operations not described and/or without one or more of the operations discussed. Additionally, the order in which the operations of the process as illustrated in FIG. 7 and described below is not intended to be limiting.

In 710, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the input receiving module 440) may receive, via the user interface, a user input associated with the first window of the target POI.

In some embodiments, the user of the user terminal 130 may interact with the map via the user interface. For example, the user input may include a clicking on the first window, a touching the first window, a voice input, an action input, or the like, or any combination thereof.

In 720, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the displaying module 430) may display, via the user interface, a second window associated with the target POI.

In some embodiments, the second window may include second information of the target POI. In some embodiments, the second information may include second detail information of the target POI. For example, the second information may include a name of the target POI, a picture of the target POI, a type of the target POI, a promotion associated with the target POI, a comment of the target POI, an introduction of the target POI, a recommend reason of the target POI, a key point of the target POI, an address of the target POI, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the second information may include more detail information of the target POI than the first information. For example, the first information may include the name of the target POI, the picture of the target POI, and the type of the target POI. The second information may include the name of the target POI, the picture of the target POI, the type of the target POI, the promotion associated with the target POI, the comment of the target POI, and the address of the target POI.

In some embodiments, the second window of the target POI may be displayed in any shape. For example, the second window may include a rectangular shape, a square shape, a circular shape, a heart shape, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, an area of the second window may be a predetermined constant value. In some embodiments, the predetermined constant value may be predetermined and stored in a storage device of the system 100 (e.g., the storage 140, the ROM 230, the RAM 240, etc. ) , or determined by the system 100 or an operator thereof according to different application scenarios. In some embodiments, the area of the second window may be greater than the area of the first window. In some embodiments, the second window may be displayed on a predetermined position of the map or the screen.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram illustrating an exemplary map according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. As shown in FIG. 8, the map may display a location symbol 810 of the location of the terminal device 130, a POI symbol 820 of a target POI (the JOY CITY) , a first window 830 of the target POI, and a second window 840 of the target POI. The first window 830 may include first information including a picture of the JOY CITY, a name of the JOY CITY, and a recommend reason (e.g., popular) of the JOY CITY. The first window 830 of the target POI may be displayed an anchor point, and may not overlap with the POI symbol 820 of the JOY CITY (i.e., the target POI) , and the location symbol 810 of the location. The second window 840 may include second information including the picture of the JOY CITY, the name of the JOY CITY, the recommend reason (e.g., popular) of the JOY CITY, an address of the JOY CITY, a promotion (e.g., cash vouchers) of the JOY CITY, brands in the JOY CITY, and comments of the JOY CITY. The second information may include more information than the first information. The area of the second window 830 may be greater than the area of the first window 810. The second window 830 may be displayed at the rightmost of the map.

It should be noted that FIG. 8 is merely provided for the purposes of illustration, and not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. For persons having ordinary skills in the art, multiple variations and modifications may be made under the teachings of the present disclosure.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary process 800 for displaying a POI according to some embodiments of the present disclosure. The process 900 may be executed by the system 100. For example, the process 900 may be implemented as a set of instructions (e.g., an application) stored in the storage ROM 230 or RAM 240. The processor 220 may execute the set of instructions, and when executing the instructions, it may be configured to perform the process 900. The operations of the illustrated process presented below are intended to be illustrative. In some embodiments, the process 900 may be accomplished with one or more additional operations not described and/or without one or more of the operations discussed. Additionally, the order in which the operations of the process as illustrated in FIG. 9 and described below is not intended to be limiting.

In 910, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the overlap determining module 460) may determine a display distance between the location symbol of the location of the terminal device 130 and the POI symbol of the target POI.

In some embodiments, the display distance may be a distance between the location symbol of the location of the terminal device 130 and the POI symbol of the target POI on the map displayed via the user interface. In some embodiments, the processing engine 112 may determine the display distance based on coordinates of the location and the target POI, a scale of the displayed map, an area of the displayed user interface, or the like, or any combination thereof. For example, the processing engine 112 may determine the display distance using a first machine-learning model. The first machine-learning model may be pre-trained and stored in a storage device of the system 100 (e.g., the storage 140, the ROM 230, the RAM 240, etc. ) .

In 920, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the overlap determining module 460) may determine an area of a predetermined window of the target POI.

In some embodiments, the predetermined window of the target POI may be an expected area of the predetermined window that the processing engine 112 may direct the user interface to display. In some embodiments, the predetermined window may include third information associated with the target POI. For example, the third information may include a name of the target POI, a picture of the target POI, a type of the target POI, a promotion associated with the target POI, a comment of the target POI, an introduction of the target POI, a recommend reason of the target POI, a key point of the target POI, or the like, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, the expected area of the predetermined window may be predetermined and stored in a storage device of the system 100 (e.g., the storage 140, the ROM 230, the RAM 240, etc. ) . In some embodiments, the processing engine 112 may access the storage device to obtain the area of the predetermined window of the target POI. In some embodiments, the expected area of the predetermined window may be variable based on the area of the displayed map on the user interface. For example, the expected area of the predetermined window may have a maximum value and a minimum value. The processing engine 112 may determine the expected area of the predetermined window based on the area of the displayed map on the user interface.

In 930, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the overlap determining module 460) may determine whether the predetermined window overlaps with the location symbol of the location of the terminal device 130 based on the display distance and the area of the predetermined window of the target POI.

In some embodiments, the map may display the location, the target POI, the POI symbol of the target POI, the location symbol of the location, and the predetermined window of the target POI in two layers. For example, the location and the target POI may be displayed on a first layer with the map, and the location symbol of the location, the POI symbol of the target POI and the predetermined window of the target POI may be displayed in a second layer. In some embodiments, the first layer may be rescalable and the second layer may not be rescalable. In some embodiments, the processing engine 112 may project the first layer and the second layer onto a third layer based on the display distance and the area of the predetermined window. The processing engine 112 may determine whether the predetermined window overlays with the location symbol of the location based on the projection on the third layer. In some embodiments, the processing engine 112 may pre-train a second machine-learning model store the second machine-learning model in a storage device of the system 100 (e.g., the storage 140, the ROM 230, the RAM 240, etc. ) . The second machine-learning model may be trained to predict whether the predetermined window overlays with the location symbol based on the display distance and the area of the predetermined window of the target POI. The processing engine 112 may determine whether the predetermined window overlays with the location symbol by inputting the display distance and the area of the predetermined window into the second machine-learning model.

In 940, in response to a determination that the predetermined window overlaps with the location symbol of the location, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the overlap determining module 460) may move the predetermined window towards a direction away from the location symbol of the location of the terminal device 130 until the predetermined window does not overlap with the symbol of the location of the terminal device 130.

In some embodiments, the processing engine 112 move the predetermined window towards any direction away from the location symbol of the location. For example, the processing engine 112 may determine a relative position of the predetermined window to the location symbol, and move the predetermined window towards a negative direction of the relative position by a fourth predetermined distance. The processing engine 112 may determine whether the predetermined window overlaps with the symbol of the location after every moving. For example, if the processing engine 112 determine that predetermined window overlaps with the symbol of the location after moving the predetermined window towards the negative direction of the relative position by the fourth predetermined distance, the processing engine 112 may continue moving the predetermined window towards the negative direction of the relative position by another fourth predetermined distance until the predetermined window does not overlap with the symbol of the location. In some embodiments, the processing engine 112 may move the predetermined window towards a direction that is at a predetermine angle (e.g., 120 degree, 150 degree, etc. ) to the relative position by a fifth predetermined distance. In some embodiments, the fourth predetermined distance, the fifth predetermined distance, and/or the predetermine angle may be stored in a storage device of the system 100 (e.g., the storage 140, the ROM 230, the RAM 240, etc. ) , or may be determined according to different application scenarios.

In 950, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the display module 430) may display the predetermined window as the first window of the target POI. Referring back to operation 930, in response to a determination that the predetermined window does not overlap with the location symbol of the location, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the display module 430) may proceed operation 950 to display the predetermined window as the first window of the target POI.

In some embodiments, in response to a determination that the predetermined window overlaps with the location symbol of the location, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the overlap determining module 460) may reduce the area of the predetermined window, and display the predetermined window as the first window of the target POI until the predetermined window does not overlap with the symbol of the location of the terminal device 130. In some embodiments, in response to a determination that the predetermined window overlaps with the location symbol of the location, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the overlap determining module 460) may change the scale of the map and display the predetermined window as the first window of the target POI until the predetermined window does not overlap with the symbol of the location of the terminal device 130. In some embodiments, in response to a determination that the predetermined window overlaps with the location symbol of the location, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the overlap determining module 460) may change a shape of the predetermined window. For example, if the predetermined window that overlaps with the location symbol of the location is a square shape, the processing engine 112 may change the square shape into a circular shape to avoid the predetermined window from overlapping with the location symbol of the location.

It should be noted that the above description is merely provided for the purposes of illustration, and not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure. For persons having ordinary skills in the art, multiple variations and modifications may be made under the teachings of the present disclosure. For example, operation 940 may include one or more processes to make the not overlap with the location symbol of the location. However, those variations and modifications do not depart from the scope of the present disclosure.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary process 900 for determining a target POI according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.

In 1010, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the target POI determining module 420) may determine at least one candidate POI associated with a route from a start location to a destination.

In some embodiments, a plurality of POIs may be stored in a storage device of the system 100 (e.g., the storage 140, the ROM 230, the RAM 240, etc. ) . The processing engine 112 may obtain the start location and the destination from the terminal device 130, and determine at least one candidate route from the start location to the destination. In some embodiments, the processing engine 112 may determine a route based on the location of the terminal device 130. For example, the processing engine 112 may determine the route that the terminal device 130 is moving along based on the location. In some embodiments, the processing engine 112 may access the storage device to obtain the at least one candidate POI associated with the route. For example, the processing engine 112 may determine a distance between a point of the route and each POI of the at least one candidate POI. The processing engine 112 may rank the distances according to ascending order and select a first predetermined number of POIs at the top of the rank as the at least one candidate POI associated with the route. In some embodiments, the first predetermined number be stored in a storage device of the system 100 (e.g., the storage 140, the ROM 230, the RAM 240, etc. ) , or determined according to different application scenarios. For example, the first predetermined number of candidate POIs may be determined according to a length of the route. As another example, the predetermined number may be determined according to the type of the route (e.g., a highway, a street, etc. ) . In some embodiments, the processing engine 112 may divide the route into a plurality of segments. The processing engine 112 may access the storage device to obtain a second predetermined number of POIs that are closest to each segment of the route as the at least one candidate POI associated with the route. In some embodiments, the second predetermined number may be stored in a storage device of the system 100 (e.g., the storage 140, the ROM 230, the RAM 240, etc. ) , or determined according to different application scenarios. For example, the processing engine 112 may obtain two POIs from the storage device every 1 km of the route.

In 1020, the processing engine 112 (e.g., the processor 220, the target POI determining module 420) may determine the target POI from the at least one candidate POI based on the location of the terminal device 130.

In some embodiments, the target POI may be within the second predetermined distance from the location of the terminal device 130. In some embodiments, the second predetermined distance may be stored in a storage device of the system 100 (e.g., the storage 140, the ROM 230, the RAM 240, etc. ) , or determined according to different application scenarios. In some embodiments, the processing engine 112 may select a POI that has the shortest distance from the location of the terminal device 130 from the plurality of candidate POIs as the target POI.

Having thus described the basic concepts, it may be rather apparent to those skilled in the art after reading this detailed disclosure that the foregoing detailed disclosure is intended to be presented by way of example only and is not limiting. Various alterations, improvements, and modifications may occur and are intended to those skilled in the art, though not expressly stated herein. These alterations, improvements, and modifications are intended to be suggested by this disclosure, and are within the spirit and scope of the exemplary embodiments of this disclosure.

Moreover, certain terminology has been used to describe embodiments of the present disclosure. For example, the terms “one embodiment, ” “an embodiment, ” and/or “some embodiments” mean that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present disclosure. Therefore, it is emphasized and should be appreciated that two or more references to “an embodiment, ” “one embodiment, ” or “an alternative embodiment” in various portions of this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, the particular features, structures or characteristics may be combined as suitable in one or more embodiments of the present disclosure.

Further, it will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, aspects of the present disclosure may be illustrated and described herein in any of a number of patentable classes or context including any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof. Accordingly, aspects of the present disclosure may be implemented entirely hardware, entirely software (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc. ) or combining software and hardware implementation that may all generally be referred to herein as a "block, " “module, ” “engine, ” “unit, ” “component, ” or “system. ” Furthermore, aspects of the present disclosure may take the form of a computer program product embodied in one or more computer readable media having computer readable program code embodied thereon.

A computer readable signal medium may include a propagated data signal with computer readable program code embodied therein, for example, in baseband or as part of a carrier wave. Such a propagated signal may take any of a variety of forms, including electro-magnetic, optical, or the like, or any suitable combination thereof. A computer readable signal medium may be any computer readable medium that is not a computer readable storage medium and that may communicate, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. Program code embodied on a computer readable signal medium may be transmitted using any appropriate medium, including wireless, wireline, optical fiber cable, RF, or the like, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

Computer program code for carrying out operations for aspects of the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Java, Scala, Smalltalk, Eiffel, JADE, Emerald, C++, C#, VB. NET, Python or the like, conventional procedural programming languages, such as the “C” programming language, Visual Basic, Fortran 1703, Perl, COBOL 1702, PHP, ABAP, dynamic programming languages such as Python, Ruby and Groovy, or other programming languages. The program code may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the latter scenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through any type of network, including a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN) , or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet Service Provider) or in a cloud computing environment or offered as a service such as a software as a service (SaaS) .

Furthermore, the recited order of processing elements or sequences, or the use of numbers, letters, or other designations, therefore, is not intended to limit the claimed processes and methods to any order except as may be specified in the claims. Although the above disclosure discusses through various examples what is currently considered to be a variety of useful embodiments of the disclosure, it is to be understood that such detail is solely for that purpose, and that the appended claims are not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, are intended to cover modifications and equivalent arrangements that are within the spirit and scope of the disclosed embodiments. For example, although the implementation of various components described above may be embodied in a hardware device, it may also be implemented as a software-only solution-e.g., an installation on an existing server or mobile device.

Similarly, it should be appreciated that in the foregoing description of embodiments of the present disclosure, various features are sometimes grouped together in a single embodiment, figure, or description thereof for the purpose of streamlining the disclosure aiding in the understanding of one or more of the various embodiments. This method of disclosure, however, is not to be interpreted as reflecting an intention that the claimed subject matter requires more features than are expressly recited in each claim. Rather, claimed subject matter may lie in less than all features of a single foregoing disclosed embodiment.

In some embodiments, the numbers expressing quantities or properties used to describe and claim certain embodiments of the application are to be understood as being modified in some instances by the term “about, ” “approximate, ” or “substantially. ” For example, “about, ” “approximate, ” or “substantially” may indicate ±20%variation of the value it describes, unless otherwise stated. Accordingly, in some embodiments, the numerical parameters set forth in the written description and attached claims are approximations that may vary depending upon the desired properties sought to be obtained by a particular embodiment. In some embodiments, the numerical parameters should be construed in light of the number of reported significant digits and by applying ordinary rounding techniques. Notwithstanding that the numerical ranges and parameters setting forth the broad scope of some embodiments of the application are approximations, the numerical values set forth in the specific examples are reported as precisely as practicable.

Each of the patents, patent applications, publications of patent applications, and other material, such as articles, books, specifications, publications, documents, things, and/or the like, referenced herein is hereby incorporated herein by this reference in its entirety for all purposes, excepting any prosecution file history associated with same, any of same that is inconsistent with or in conflict with the present document, or any of same that may have a limiting affect as to the broadest scope of the claims now or later associated with the present document. By way of example, should there be any inconsistency or conflict between the descriptions, definition, and/or the use of a term associated with any of the incorporated material and that associated with the present document, the description, definition, and/or the use of the term in the present document shall prevail.

In closing, it is to be understood that the embodiments of the application disclosed herein are illustrative of the principles of the embodiments of the application. Other modifications that may be employed may be within the scope of the application. Thus, by way of example, but not of limitation, alternative configurations of the embodiments of the application may be utilized in accordance with the teachings herein. Accordingly, embodiments of the present application are not limited to that precisely as shown and described.

Claims

A system for displaying a point of interest (POI) , comprising:

at least one storage medium including a set of instructions for displaying a POI; and

at least one processor in communication with the storage medium, wherein when executing the set of instructions, the at least one processor is directed to cause the system to perform operations including:

determining a location of a terminal device;

determining a target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device; and

displaying, via a user interface, a first window of the target POI including first information associated with the target POI, wherein the first window of the target POI is displayed with the target POI as an anchor point and does not overlap with a POI symbol of the target POI and a location symbol of the location of the terminal device.
The system of claim 1, wherein an area of the first window of the target POI increases as a distance between the location of the terminal device and the target POI decreases.
The system of claim 1 or claim 2, wherein the first information includes at least one of a name of the target POI, a picture of the target POI, or a type of the target POI.
The system of any one of claims 1-3, wherein the operations may further include:

receiving, via the user interface, a user input associated with the first window of the target POI; and

in response to receiving the user input, displaying, via the user interface, a second window including second information associated with the target POI.
The system of claim 4, wherein the second information includes at least one of: a name of the target POI, a picture of the target POI, a type of the target POI, a promotion associated with the target POI, or a comment of the target POI.
The system of any one of claims 1-5, wherein the operations may further include:

determining a next POI to be displayed with respect to the target POI based on the location of the terminal device; wherein

an area of the POI symbol of the target POI decreases as a distance between the location of the terminal device and the target POI increases; and

an area of a POI symbol of the next POI increases as the area of the POI symbol of the target POI decreases.
The system of any one of claims 1-6, wherein the operations may further include:

determining a display distance between the location symbol of the location of the terminal device and the POI symbol of the target POI;

determining an area of a predetermined window of the target POI;

determining whether the predetermined window of the target POI overlaps with the location symbol of the location of the terminal device based on the display distance and the area of the predetermined window of the target POI;

in response to determining that the predetermined window of the target POI overlaps with the location symbol of the location of the terminal device, moving the predetermined window towards a direction away from the location symbol of the location of the terminal device until the predetermined window does not overlap with the symbol of the location of the terminal device; and

displaying the predetermined window as the first window of the target POI.
The system of any one of claims 1-7, wherein the POI symbol of the target POI represents a type of the target POI.
The system of any one of claims 1-8, wherein the determining the target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device includes:

determining at least one candidate POI associated with a route from a start location to a destination; and

determining the target POI from the at least one candidate POI, wherein the target POI is within a predetermined distance from the location of the terminal device.
The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one candidate POI includes at least one of: a scenic spot, a playground, a restaurant, a shopping mall, a store, a gas station, a hotel, a parking lot, a bank, or a hospital.
A method for displaying a point of interest (POI) , comprising:

determining a location of a terminal device;

determining a target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device; and

displaying, via a user interface, a first window of the target POI including first information associated with the target POI, wherein the first window of the target POI is displayed with the target POI as an anchor point and does not overlap with a POI symbol of the target POI and a location symbol of the location of the terminal device.
The method of claim 11, wherein an area of the first window of the target POI increases as a distance between the location of the terminal device and the target POI decreases.
The method of claim 11 or claim 12, wherein the first information includes at least one of a name of the target POI, a picture of the target POI, or a type of the target POI.
The method of any one of claims 11-13, further comprising:

receiving, via the user interface, a user input associated with the first window of the target POI; and

in response to receiving the user input, displaying, via the user interface, a second window including second information associated with the target POI.
The method of claim 14, wherein the second information includes at least one of: a name of the target POI, a picture of the target POI, a type of the target POI, a promotion associated with the target POI, or a comment of the target POI.
The method of any one of claims 11-15, further comprising:

determining a next POI to be displayed with respect to the target POI based on the location of the terminal device; wherein

an area of the POI symbol of the target POI decreases as a distance between the location of the terminal device and the target POI increases; and

an area of a POI symbol of the next POI increases as the area of the POI symbol of the target POI decreases.
The method of any one of claims 11-16, further comprising:

determining a display distance between the location symbol of the location of the terminal device and the POI symbol of the target POI;

determining an area of a predetermined window of the target POI;

determining whether the predetermined window of the target POI overlaps with the location symbol of the location of the terminal device based on the display distance and the area of the predetermined window of the target POI;

in response to determining that the predetermined window of the target POI overlaps with the location symbol of the location of the terminal device, moving the predetermined window towards a direction away from the location symbol of the location of the terminal device until the predetermined window does not overlap with the symbol of the location of the terminal device; and

displaying the predetermined window as the first window of the target POI.
The method of any one of claims 11-17, wherein the POI symbol of the target POI represents a type of the target POI.
The method of any one of claims 11-18, wherein the determining the target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device includes:

determining at least one candidate POI associated with a route from a start location to a destination; and

determining the target POI from the at least one candidate POI, wherein the target POI is within a predetermined distance from the location of the terminal device.
The method of claim 19, wherein the at least one candidate POI includes at least one of: a scenic spot, a playground, a restaurant, a shopping mall, a store, a gas station, a hotel, a parking lot, a bank, or a hospital.
A non-transitory readable medium, comprising at least one set of instructions for displaying a point of interest (POI) , wherein when executed by at least one processor of an electrical device, the at least one set of instructions directs the at least one processor to perform a method, the method comprising:

determining a location of a terminal device;

determining a target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device; and

displaying, via a user interface, a first window of the target POI including first information associated with the target POI, wherein the first window of the target POI is displayed with the target POI as an anchor point and does not overlap with a POI symbol of the target POI and a location symbol of the location of the terminal device.
A system for displaying a point of interest (POI) , comprising:

a location determining module, configured to determine a location of a terminal device;

a target POI determining module, configured to determine a target POI to be displayed based on the location of the terminal device; and

a displaying module, configured to display, via a user interface, a first window of the target POI including first information associated with the target POI, wherein the first window of the target POI is displayed with the target POI as an anchor point and does not overlap with a POI symbol of the target POI and a location symbol of the location of the terminal device.