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Method and apparatus for customer/passenger wayfinding using boarding pass barcode scanning capabilities on low-cost display devices

  • US 8,849,560 B2
  • Filed: 04/29/2011
  • Issued: 09/30/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A low-cost display unit that displays wayfinding information to a traveler in a public travel-related area, comprising:

  • a communication interface that facilitates receiving of travel-related information;

    a machine-readable marking reader that determines the presence of a travel document having one or more machine readable markings, scans the one or more machine-readable markings, and decodes the scanned one or more machine-readable markings, wherein the one or more machine-readable markings contain encoded traveled-related information pertaining to the traveler; and

    a display control unit that receives the decoded one or more machine-readable marking, determines the traveler'"'"'s destination in the public travel-related area from the decoded one or more machine-readable markings, determines the path that the traveler should travel to reach the destination, and displays the determined path to the traveler on the low-cost display unit.

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