AN APPARATUS AND METHOD TO PROVIDE A USER WITH AN INDICATION OF A DIRECTION TO A PARTICULAR DESTINATION

• US 20150331081A1
• Filed: 12/07/2012
• Published: 11/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: WHARTON, Alistair, MURRAY, Lee, KHOKHLOV, Vladimir
• Application Number:
  US14/648,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20150331081A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3438 Rendez-vous, i.e. searching a destination where several users can meet, and the routes to this destination for these users; Ride sharing, i.e. searching a route such that at least two users can share a vehicle for at least part of the route
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3632 Guidance using simplified or iconic instructions, e.g. using arrows G01C21/365 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 3/046 Displays or indicators
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 3/14 Systems for determining direction or deviation from predetermined direction aerial arrangements for changing or varying the orientation or the shape of the directional pattern H01Q3/00; combinations of different interacting aerial units for giving a desired directional characteristic H01Q21/29; aerials or aerial systems providing at least two radiation patterns H01Q25/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/21 Combinations with auxiliary equipment, e.g. with clocks or memoranda pads

Abstract

An apparatus configured to receive, from a remote apparatus (master navigator), a bearing signal indicating the directional offset of a destination with respect to a directional reference, and use the bearing signal to indicate, on a portable apparatus (direction resolver), the heading of the destination with respect to a directional reference of the portable apparatus. Also discussed are a method, computer program code, and a bearing signal.

Claims

1-21. -21. (canceled)

22. An apparatus, the apparatus configured to:

receive, from a remote apparatus, a bearing signal indicating a directional offset of a destination with respect to a directional reference; and

use the bearing signal to indicate, on a portable apparatus, a heading of the destination with respect to a directional reference of the portable apparatus.

23. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the bearing signal is a current bearing signal valid for a time instance, and the apparatus is configured to:

receive respective current bearing signals indicating the directional offset of the destination with respect to the directional reference at the respective corresponding time instances; and

use the respective current bearing signals to adjust the indicated heading of the destination as the portable apparatus is moved with respect to a directional reference of the portable apparatus.

24. The apparatus of claim 23, wherein the apparatus is configured to use the respective current bearing signals to adjust the indicated heading of the destination as the portable apparatus is moved by:

rotation of the portable apparatus with respect to the directional reference of the portable apparatus; and

/or

translation of the portable apparatus.

25. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the directional offset is configured to provide a single directional value with respect to the directional reference.

26. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the apparatus is configured to receive the bearing signal wirelessly from the remote apparatus.

27. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the apparatus comprises a receiver configured to receive the bearing signal wirelessly via radio-communication.

28. The apparatus according to claim 22, wherein the apparatus is configured to receive and use the bearing signal to indicate the heading using at least one of a memory, a processor, a micro-electro-mechanical system, and a logic gate configuration of the apparatus.

29. The apparatus of claim 22, wherein the heading of the destination is indicated on the portable apparatus by using an audio and/or visual indication of a direction required to reach the destination.

30. A computer readable medium comprising computer program code stored thereon, the computer readable medium and computer program code being configured to, when run on at least one processor, perform at least the following:

receive, from a remote apparatus, a bearing signal indicating the directional offset of a destination with respect to a directional reference; and

use the bearing signal to indicate, using a portable apparatus, the heading of the destination with respect to a directional reference of the portable apparatus.

31. A method comprising:

receiving, from a remote apparatus, a bearing signal indicating the directional offset of a destination with respect to a directional reference; and

using the bearing signal to indicate, using a portable apparatus, the heading of the destination with respect to a directional reference of the portable apparatus.

32. A bearing signal comprising the directional offset of a destination with respect to a directional reference of a remote apparatus, the bearing signal configured for:

transmission from the remote apparatus to an apparatus; and

use by the apparatus to indicate, on a portable apparatus, the heading of the destination with respect to a directional reference of the portable apparatus.