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Interactive personal interpretive device and system for retrieving information about a plurality of objects

  • US 5,929,848 A
  • Filed: 05/29/1996
  • Issued: 07/27/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/02/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A system for retrieving and displaying object information for any of a plurality of distributed objects, each object associated with object information, the system comprising:

  • a plurality of object identification devices, each object identification device disposed near at least one object, and transmitting an object identification signal identifying the object or objects near which the object identification device is disposed within a transmission area;

    a personal interpretive device, comprising;

    a receiver for receiving an object identification signal from an object identification device of which the personal interpretive device is within the transmission area of the object identification device;

    a storage device for storing object information, including audio data, graphic data, and text data for at least one of the plurality of objects, the object information for each object associated in the storage device with at least one object identification signal;

    a processor operatively coupled to the receiver and the storage device, retrieving from the storage device the object information associated with the object identification signal received by the receiver;

    an audio output device operatively coupled to the processor adapted to output audio data included in the retrieved object information;

    a display operatively coupled to the processor, adapted to output text data or graphic data included in the retrieved object information; and

    a map generator operatively coupled to the display for generating a map having graphic representations of selected objects, the map generator operatively coupled to the storage device for retrieving from the storage device the graphic representation of the selected objects.

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