US Patent Issued to NAVER on Nov. 25 for "Route guidance method and device using augmented reality view" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,776, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NAVER Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Route guidance method and device using augmented reality view" was invented by Jeanie Jung (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Yeowon Yoon (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of obtaining a route from a point of departure to a destination includes providing route guidance through an augmented reality (AR) view including an image captured by a camera. To provide route guidance, as a user terminal moves toward a destination on the basis of an obtained route, when an interaction occurs between the user terminal and a node or a link ...