NAVIGATION INDICATOR
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1. A method comprising:
- identifying location information for a target object in a mobile device;
coding the identified location information onto a graphical indicator in the mobile device; and
,presenting the graphical indicator on a user interface of the mobile device, wherein the indicator provides direction, distance, obstacle and signal information corresponding to the target object to a user of the mobile device.
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, user interface and computer program product for identifying location information for a target object includes coding the identified location information onto a graphical indicator; and, presenting the graphical indicator on a user interface of the mobile device, wherein the indicator provides direction, distance, obstacle and signal information corresponding to the target object to a user of the mobile device.
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1. A method comprising:
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identifying location information for a target object in a mobile device; coding the identified location information onto a graphical indicator in the mobile device; and
,presenting the graphical indicator on a user interface of the mobile device, wherein the indicator provides direction, distance, obstacle and signal information corresponding to the target object to a user of the mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 8, 9, 18)
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- 3. The method of claim 3 further comprising that distance information to the target object corresponds to a length, width and color of the indicator, obstacle information between the mobile device and the target object corresponds to a shape of the indicator, and signal strength information corresponds to a style of the indicator.
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10. An apparatus comprising:
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an information input device; a display device; and at least one processor, the at least one processor configured to; identify location information for a target object from location data in the information input device; code the identified location information onto a graphical indicator; and
,present the graphical indicator on the display device, wherein the indicator provides direction, distance, obstacle and signal information of the target object relative to the apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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19. A method comprising:
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identifying location information for a target object relative to a mobile device, in the mobile device; coding the location information to respective variable properties of an arrow indicator in the mobile device, where a length and size of the indicator corresponds to a distance to the target object, a shape of the indicator corresponds to any obstacles in a path to the target object and a style of the indicator corresponds to a signal quality of the identified location information; presenting the indicator on a display of the mobile device; and updating each variable property of the indicator on the mobile device to reflect updated location information as the mobile device determines the updated location information relative to detected changes in position of the target object or the mobile device. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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