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PORTABLE INFORMATION-PROVIDING APPARATUS

  • US 20020052684A1
  • Filed: 05/19/2000
  • Published: 05/02/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/03/1997
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A portable information-providing apparatus comprising a position detector which provides data of a user'"'"'s position, a direction detector which provides data of a direction as determined by the user, a processor which operates to correlate said position and direction data with information of features in the user'"'"'s surroundings as stored in a memory together with position information of the same, and information output means operative to provide said information to the user, said information being related to a feature in the user'"'"'s surroundings at least approximately along said direction determined by the user by simply pointing the apparatus in the selected direction towards the feature of interest.

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