Location-based Information Delivery System for Pedestrian Use

• US 20080114536A1
• Filed: 11/13/2006
• Published: 05/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Holding 69 LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Brian L. Teasley
• Inventors: Teasley, Brian L.
• Granted Patent: US 7,532,112 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/207
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence

Abstract

A location-based multi-media information delivery system and control for pedestrian use is disclosed, designed especially for use in areas where it is not possible to determine a user'"'"'s precise location. The system automatically provides a selection list of relevant information based on the user'"'"'s calculated location. The system then delivers information via the appropriate output method, based on the user'"'"'s selection. Also disclosed is a system that receives location information from various systems, including global positioning satellite systems and wireless local area network systems. The system may provide video, audio and visual information.

Claims

1. An apparatus for presenting multimedia information to a pedestrian user, comprising:

Position determining means for determining the location of the user;

storage means for storing multimedia information to be presented to the user;

selecting means, responsive to user location, for selecting relevant stored information from said storage means to be presented to the user as selection options, selection means responsive to user choice, for selecting stored multimedia information from said storage means to be presented to the user and

Presenting means for presenting selection list of nearby information from which user selects, and for presenting multimedia information stored in said storage means and selected by said selecting means.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said selecting means further includes:

Calculating means for calculating the distance to each piece of information stored in storage means;

Tagging means for tagging stored multimedia information for retrieval, responsive to said calculating means; and

Retrieval means for retrieving information tagged by said tagging means from said storage means.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein said presenting means comprises means for presenting audio information to the user.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein said presenting means further comprises means for presenting visual information to the user.

5. A control program tangibly stored on a storage device readable by a programmable control device when coupled to the storage device, such that the control device is configured and operated by the control program when the storage device is read by the control device, the configured control device being operated to select multimedia information stored on the storage device for presentation to a user by a multimedia information presentation device, the control program being configured to operate the control device to perform the function of:

Receiving input data for the position of the user at a particular time;

Accessing location information stored on the storage device,

Calculating the distance to each location stored on the storage device,

Presenting a selection of locations to the user via the presentation means,

Accessing multimedia information stored on the storage device, responsive to the selection made by the user.

6. A method of presenting multimedia information to a user, the method being implemented in a programmed computer system comprising a processor, a data storage system, at least one input device, and at least one output system, the method comprising the steps of:

Receiving input data for the programmed computer, the data comprising calculated user position at a particular time;

Storing the input data in the data storage system;

Applying, to the input data stored in the data storage system, by means of the programmed computer, a step which compares the calculated user position to the positions of locations stored in the storage device;

Presenting, by means of the output system, the selection of information on locations which are within the information'"'"'s show radius distance from the user'"'"'s calculated position;

Selection by the user of the information for presentation.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said receiving further comprises receiving input data comprising the directional heading of the user

8. The method of claim 7, wherein said applying is further responsive to the directional heading of the user