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Portable information-providing apparatus

  • US 6,470,264 B2
  • Filed: 05/19/2000
  • Issued: 10/22/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/03/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A portable information-providing apparatus comprising a position detector which provides data of a user'"'"'s position;

  • a direction detector which provides data of a direction as selected by the user by pointing the apparatus along a line towards a specific feature of interest within the user'"'"'s general view;

    a processor which operates to correlate said position and direction data with a corresponding record of said specific feature of interest in a database containing multiple records associated with different features in the user'"'"'s surroundings, each record comprising data of the position of the feature and user information about the feature; and

    an information output device operative to output the user information from the record of said specific feature of interest at which the user has pointed the apparatus.

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