Method and mobile station for route guidance
First Claim
1. Method of route guidance for a user with the aid of a mobile station (1) in which the user is connected via the mobile station (1) to an on-line service (OS) which has access to an electronic database (DB) containing geographic information in order to transmit from the user information on his/her local position and his/her destination and in order to request from the on-line service (OS) route data for individual route guidance, wherein the mobile station (1) outputs the route data optically and/or acoustically, characterised in that the on-line service (OS) preprocesses the route data as a function of the branching of the total route to the user'"'"'s destination as a series of stages of the route with discrete route destinations and to identify each stage transmits to the mobile station (1) in each case a specification of direction and a destination name for the route destination.
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Abstract
A mobile station (1) serves in association with a corresponding method to guide a user, especially a pedestrian, to a destination. For this purpose an on-line service computes a travel route on the basis of user data concerning the start point and destination and transmits route data to the mobile station in the form of route destinations for stages of the route. Each route destination contains at least one specification of direction and a destination name. The mobile station (1) signals the target direction and the name of the destination of the route to the user via internal optical and/or acoustic output means (7). The route data are output in stepwise manner in the form of a series of stages of the route and the user confirms reaching a current route destination by means of an input into the mobile station (1). In this way the output of the route data is updated. In order to be able to define a target direction for the current route destination an appropriate application software package and a direction indicator (22), preferably a compass responding to the earth'"'"'s magnetic field, are integrated in the mobile station (1).
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- 1. Method of route guidance for a user with the aid of a mobile station (1) in which the user is connected via the mobile station (1) to an on-line service (OS) which has access to an electronic database (DB) containing geographic information in order to transmit from the user information on his/her local position and his/her destination and in order to request from the on-line service (OS) route data for individual route guidance, wherein the mobile station (1) outputs the route data optically and/or acoustically, characterised in that the on-line service (OS) preprocesses the route data as a function of the branching of the total route to the user'"'"'s destination as a series of stages of the route with discrete route destinations and to identify each stage transmits to the mobile station (1) in each case a specification of direction and a destination name for the route destination.
- 13. Mobile station (1) for guiding a user to a destination with the aid of an on-line service (OS) which via a wireless connection to a communications network (NET) transmits route data for a travel route, wherein the mobile station (1) contains a processor (2) having means of storage (8) for the temporary storage of the route data together with appropriate application software which outputs the route data optically and/or acoustically, characterised in that a direction indicator (22), preferably a compass responding to the earth'"'"'s magnetic field, is integrated in order to be able to define a target direction for the current route destination.
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