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Google patents maps that let you edit features using AI

Google describes a system that uses a generative AI model to change specific features of objects on a digital map. When a user requests a change, the AI modifies the map's graphics and saves the result as a new, customizable layer.

Why it mattersThis could allow users to personalize how locations look in mapping apps, such as highlighting specific landmarks or altering visual styles, rather than just seeing a standard view.

In the filing’s own words

A computing system for generating a customized digital map includes one or more memories to store instructions and one or more processors to execute the instructions to perform operations, the operations including: providing, for presentation via a user interface, a digital map of a location which includes a plurality of graphical objects associated with a first map layer among the plurality of map layers; processing, via a generative machine-learned model, an input customizing one or more features associated with at least one of the plurality of graphical objects to generate the customized digital map which depicts the location including the at least one of the plurality of graphical objects having the one or more customized features; and generating a customized map layer based on the customized digital map and including the customized map layer among the plurality of map layers.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A computing system for generating a customized digital map, comprising: one or more memories configured to store instructions and a plurality of map layers; and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations, the operations comprising: providing, for presentation via a user interface, a digital map of a location which includes a plurality of graphical objects associated with a first map layer among the plurality of map layers; processing, via a generative machine-learned model, an input customizing one or more features associated with at least one of the plurality of graphical objects to generate the customized digital map which depicts the location including the at least one of the plurality of graphical objects having one or more customized features; and generating a customized map layer based on the customized digital map and including the customized map layer among the plurality of map layers.

Facts

Company
Google (Google LLC)
Official title
Generating a Customized Digital Map Via a Generative Machine-Learned Model
Publication number
US20260276401A1
Application number
19672458
Filed
May 8, 2026
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
20

Classified under

G01C 21/3804 Physics & computingG01C 21/3881 Physics & computingG06N 3/0475 Physics & computing
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