Turn by Turn Navigation Forecasted in Apple Patent
In August 2011 we posted a report titled "Apple to Advance their "Maps + Compass" Feature with Augmented Reality." The patent application stated that "directions could be overlaid onto the presently displayed video feed, thus showing a course and upcoming turns. As the user and associated device progress along a route, the overlaid directions could automatically update to show the updated path." Apple's iOS 6 will bring this to life later this year.
With Apple introducing turn by turn navigation to the iPhone in Q4 via iOS 6, there's still another patent that will be fulfilled at that time. It's one that we covered in our April 2012 report titled "Greater Magnetometer Mapping Accuracy Coming to iOS Devices." In order to have turn by turn accuracy, iOS devices will have to upgrade to a next generation magnetometer
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Vehicles Integrating Siri Found in Apple Patent Regarding Hands Free Navigation
In January of this year we posted a report titled "Apple's Second Siri Patent Discusses All Things Hands-Free." In that report we pointed out that Siri could be headed for vehicles in the future. Earlier in that month, we posted a report titled "Apple introduces us to Siri, the Killer Patent." In that patent report we presented a patent from Honda that clearly illustrated that their future voice activated system would work with an iPod and it just happens to be that Honda, as you can see in Forstall's slide above, is one of nine car manufacturers that will offer Siri in their 2013 vehicles.
One passage from Apple's Siri patent stated that at least one intelligent automated assistant system configuration disclosed in the patent "may be configured or designed to include functionality for enabling the operation of applications and services via natural language dialog that may be otherwise provided by dedicated applications with graphical user interfaces including search (including location-based search); navigation (maps and directions) …" which is exactly what Forstall presented to us during his keynote in areas regarding Siri and Maps. The patent clearly goes on to present a flowchart illustrating Siri being embedded into automobile systems. So the context is 100% in line with Forstall's keynote. .