METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT RELATING TO NAVIGATION

• US 20120150429A1
• Filed: 12/12/2011
• Published: 06/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Siotos, Georg
• Application Number:
  US13/316,685
• Publication Number:
  US 20120150429A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/411
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3617 using user history, behaviour, conditions or preferences, e.g. predicted or inferred from previous use or current movement

Abstract

The present invention relates to a navigation system (100) comprising a navigation device (10) and a data providing device (20). The data providing device is configured to monitor a user and provide said navigation device (10) with biometric data relating to at least one physical behaviour of said user.

Claims

1. A navigation system comprising:

a navigation unit;

configured to navigate a user from a first point to a second point,

a data retrieval unit;

configured to monitor the user and provided the navigation unit with at least one of physiological or biometric data corresponding to said user,

a controller;

configured to determine at least a part of a rout from said first point to said second point based on said at least one of physiological or biometric data corresponding to the user by including or excluding at least a part of the rout based on said at least one of physiological or biometric data.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one of physiological or biometric data is at least one of heart rate, heart sound, pulse, blood pressure, glucose levels, electromyogram signal level (EMG), eye-blink rate, pupillary size, or a parameter giving a measure on said user'"'"'s stress level.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a sensor for detecting one or several of heart rate, heart sound, pulse, blood pressure, glucose levels, electromyogram signal level (EMG).

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a sensor for detecting user eye related parameters.

5. A navigation device comprising:

a processor configured to access digital map data and calculate a route to a destination, said route comprising one or more manoeuvres, the navigation device further comprising;

a store for storing user related parameter data, which data indicates a the position of a specific parameter related to a user in said digital map, a data interrogator that is configured to access said user related parameter data store to determine whether there is a specific user parameter in the vicinity of a said manoeuvre, and a navigation instruction generator operable in the event that said data interrogator determines that a said parameter is located in the vicinity of said manoeuvre to generate for that manoeuvre an enhanced navigation instruction that refers to said parameter for provision to a user of said navigation device, wherein said specific user parameter is at least one of physiological or biometric data corresponding to said user.

6. The device of claim 6, wherein said at least one of physiological or biometric data corresponding to said user is at least one of heart rate, heart sound, pulse, blood pressure, glucose levels, electromyogram signal level (EMG), eye-blink rate, pupillary size, or a parameter giving a measure on said user'"'"'s stress level.

7. The device of claim 6, further comprising an interface for communication with a sensor for detecting one or several of heart rate, heart sound, pulse, blood pressure, glucose levels, electromyogram signal level (EMG).

8. The device of claim 6, further comprising an interface for communication with a sensor for detecting user eye related parameters.

9. The device according to claim 6, further comprising a communication interface, a user input and/or output interface portion, and a positioning unit.

10. A mobile terminal comprising a navigation device comprising:

a processor configured to access digital map data and calculate a route to a destination, said route comprising one or more manoeuvres, the navigation device further comprising;

a store for storing user related parameter data, which data indicates a the position of a specific parameter related to a user in said digital map, a data interrogator that is configured to access said user related parameter data store to determine whether there is a specific user parameter in the vicinity of a said manoeuvre, and a navigation instruction generator operable in the event that said data interrogator determines that a said parameter is located in the vicinity of said manoeuvre to generate for that manoeuvre an enhanced navigation instruction that refers to said parameter for provision to a user of said navigation device (10), wherein said specific user parameter is at least one of physiological or biometric data corresponding to said user.

11. A method in a navigation system, the method comprising:

obtaining a route enquiry,

processing a number of parameters, wherein at least one of said parameters is related to a user biometric or physiologic value, and

determining a route based on said processed parameters, wherein determining a route based on said processed parameters comprises including or excluding a part of said rout based on said processed parameters.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein said is biometric or physiologic value is one or several of heart rate, heart sound, pulse, blood pressure, glucose levels, electromyogram signal level (EMG), eye-blink rate, pupillary size, or a parameter giving a measure on said user'"'"'s stress level.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein said value is added to other navigations parameters.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein said value is used to automatically alert and navigate the user to a nearby care center.