Portable information-providing apparatus
First Claim
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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Abstract
A portable information-providing apparatus comprising a position detector, a direction detector, a processor, a memory, and information output device. The position detector provides data of a use'"'"'s position. The direction detector provides data of a direction as determined by the user. The processor operates to correlate said position and direction data with information of features in the user'"'"'s surroundings as stored in the memory. The information output device provides the information to the user, the information being related to a feature in the user'"'"'s surroundings generally along the direction determined by the user.
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40 Claims
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
- 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;
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40. A portable information-providing apparatus comprising:
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a position detector which provides user position data as determined by the user'"'"'s position;
a direction detector which provides pointing direction data as selected by the user by pointing the apparatus along a line toward a specific feature of interest within the user'"'"'s surroundings;
a database containing multiple records associated with a plurality of features in the user'"'"'s surroundings, each record comprising feature position data and user information about each of the plurality of features;
a processor which operates to correlate said user position data and pointing direction data with a record corresponding to said specific feature of interest in the database; and
an information output device operative to output the user information from the record for said specific feature of interest at which the user has pointed the apparatus as a result of only pointing the apparatus.
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