Snap inc. (20250110611). STYLIZED MAP TILE GENERATION AND SERVING FOR ONLINE PLATFORMS

STYLIZED MAP TILE GENERATION AND SERVING FOR ONLINE PLATFORMS

Organization Name

snap inc.

Inventor(s)

Daniel Amitay of New York NY US

Jonathan Brody of Marina Del Rey CA US

Leonid Gorkin of Chappaqua NY US

Jeffrey Arthur Johnson of Brooklyn NY US

Andrew Lin of Long Island City NY US

Walton Lin of Chatham NJ US

Nayana Samaranayake of New York NY US

Evan Spiegel of Los Angeles CA US

Marcel M. Yung of New York NY US

STYLIZED MAP TILE GENERATION AND SERVING FOR ONLINE PLATFORMS

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250110611 titled 'STYLIZED MAP TILE GENERATION AND SERVING FOR ONLINE PLATFORMS

Original Abstract Submitted

systems and methods for generating and serving stylized map tiles for a social media platform's map-based graphical user interface. multiple earth imagery tiles corresponding to a geographical area are retrieved, each comprising a photographic image of a corresponding portion of the earth's surface. based on the earth imagery tiles, multiple stylized map tiles are generated. in response to receiving a request from a user device for display of a target area in the map-based gui, a set of stylized map tiles corresponding to the target area is retrieved and transmitted to the user device. the generation of stylized map tiles may include retrieving a target earth imagery tile together with neighboring tiles, generating an expanded earth imagery tile, stylizing the expanded tile, and cropping to produce the final stylized map tile. different neural networks may be used for stylizing tiles at different zoom levels.