Positional camera and GPS data interchange device
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1. A system, comprising:
- a first personal communications device (PCD) associated with a first user, and a second PCD associated with a second user, each PCD having a processor and a display comprising a touch screen input device, and being configured to operate as a portable telephone and to send and receive Global Positioning System (GPS) encoded location data;
a data provider that collects map data and other data and tags the other data to the map data;
one or more condition reporting devices that are configured to detect a road condition at a location and to send traffic speed data to a computer network;
the first PCD configured to receive map data from the data provider and to show the map on the display and to show the position of the first PCD as a first icon on the map, the first PCD configured to serve as a mobile condition reporting device and to send detected road condition data to a central computer system; and
the first PCD further configured to receive GPS encoded location data regarding the second PCD and to show the position of the second PCD as a second icon on the map;
wherein the first PCD display is configured so that when the map is shown on the display, an interface to communications with the second user is provided through the touch screen input device at touch points on the display;
wherein the first PCD display is configured to have a sub-menu, and the interface to communications with the second user can be actuated through touch points in the sub-menu; and
wherein each PCD comprises a digital camera configured to apply a GPS location stamp on a digitized image captured by the PCD digital camera, and each PCD is configured to select a road condition, wherein the detected road condition data comprises a digitized image with the GPS location stamp and a tag based on the selected road condition.
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Abstract
A location tagged data provision and display system. A personal communication device (PCD) with electromagnetic communication capability has a GPS receiver and a display. The PCD requests maps and location tagged data from data providers and other for display on the PCD. The data providers respond to requests by using searching and sorting schemes to interrogate data bases and then automatically transmitting data responsive to the requests to the requesting PCD.
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1. A system, comprising:
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a first personal communications device (PCD) associated with a first user, and a second PCD associated with a second user, each PCD having a processor and a display comprising a touch screen input device, and being configured to operate as a portable telephone and to send and receive Global Positioning System (GPS) encoded location data; a data provider that collects map data and other data and tags the other data to the map data; one or more condition reporting devices that are configured to detect a road condition at a location and to send traffic speed data to a computer network; the first PCD configured to receive map data from the data provider and to show the map on the display and to show the position of the first PCD as a first icon on the map, the first PCD configured to serve as a mobile condition reporting device and to send detected road condition data to a central computer system; and the first PCD further configured to receive GPS encoded location data regarding the second PCD and to show the position of the second PCD as a second icon on the map; wherein the first PCD display is configured so that when the map is shown on the display, an interface to communications with the second user is provided through the touch screen input device at touch points on the display; wherein the first PCD display is configured to have a sub-menu, and the interface to communications with the second user can be actuated through touch points in the sub-menu; and wherein each PCD comprises a digital camera configured to apply a GPS location stamp on a digitized image captured by the PCD digital camera, and each PCD is configured to select a road condition, wherein the detected road condition data comprises a digitized image with the GPS location stamp and a tag based on the selected road condition. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 40)
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7. A system, comprising:
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a first personal communications device (PCD) associated with a first user, and a second PCD associated with a second user, each PCD having a processor and a display comprising a touch screen input device, and being configured to operate as a portable telephone and to send and receive Global Positioning System (GPS) encoded location data; a data provider that collects map data and other data and tags the other data to the map data; the PCDs being configured to serve as mobile condition reporting devices configured to send a road condition data to a central computer system; the first PCD configured to receive map data from the data provider and to show the map on the display and to show the position of the first PCD as a first icon on the map; and the first PCD further configured to receive GPS encoded location data regarding the second PCD and to show the position of the second PCD as a second icon on the map; wherein the first PCD display is configured so that when the map is shown on the display, an interface to communications with the second user is provided through the touch screen input device at touch points on the display; wherein the first PCD display is configured to have a sub-menu, and the interface to communications with the second user can be actuated through touch points in the sub-menu; wherein the PCDs are configured so that the associated user can select a road status data reflecting the user'"'"'s observation of a road status, and each PCD is configured to send the selected road status data to the central computer system; and wherein the PCDs each comprise a digital camera configured to apply a GPS location stamp on a digitized image captured by the PCD digital camera, wherein the road condition data comprises a digitized image with the GPS location stamp and a tag based on the selected road status. - View Dependent Claims (8, 41)
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12. A system, comprising:
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a first personal communications device (PCD) associated with a first user, and a second PCD associated with a second user, each PCD having a processor and a display comprising a touch screen input device, and being configured to operate as a portable telephone and to send and receive Global Positioning System (GPS) encoded location data; a data provider that collects map data and other data and tags the other data to the map data; the first PCD configured to receive map data from the data provider and to show the map on the display and to show the position of the first PCD as a first icon on the map; the first PCD further configured to receive GPS encoded location data regarding the second PCD and to show the position of the second PCD as a second icon on the map; wherein the first PCD display is configured so that when the map is shown on the display, an interface to communications with the second user is provided through the touch screen input device at touch points on the display; and wherein the first PCD display is configured to have a sub-menu, and the interface to communications with the second user can be actuated through touch points in the sub-menu; wherein each PCD is configured so that the associated user can indicate a roadway status and communicate the status to the data provider; and wherein a first group of one or more users are recognized by the data provider as authorized personnel, and a second group of users are not recognized by the data provider as authorized personnel, and wherein the data provider is configured to only consider communications about the roadway status that are received from a user in the first group of users. - View Dependent Claims (13, 42, 43)
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14. A method of exchanging GPS encoded and non-GPS encoded information between handheld devices, each of the handheld devices including at least a processor, a memory, a display screen configured to accept touch-screen inputs, a microphone, and a speaker, and being configured to operate as a portable telephone and to send and receive Global Positioning System (GPS) encoded location data, the method comprising:
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a first one of the handheld devices receiving map data from a data provider; the first one of the handheld devices sending road condition data to a central computer system, comprising capturing a digitized image, applying a GPS location stamp to the digitized image, and sending the digitized image with the GPS location stamp to the central computer system; the first one of the handheld devices receiving GPS encoded location data regarding a second one of the handheld devices; the first one of the handheld devices showing the map on the display and showing the position of the second one of the handheld devices as an icon on the map, and simultaneously receiving an input through a touch point on the display; and in response to the input, the first one of the handheld devices communicating with the second one of the handheld devices. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 44, 45, 46)
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22. A system, comprising:
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a first personal communications device (PCD) associated with a first user, and a second PCD associated with a second user, each PCD having a processor and a display comprising a touch screen input device, and being configured to operate as a portable telephone and to send and receive Global Positioning System (GPS) encoded location data; a data provider that collects map data and other data and tags the other data to the map data; the first PCD configured to receive map data from the data provider and to show the map on the display and to show the position of the first PCD as a first icon on the map; each PCD comprising a digital camera configured to apply a GPS location data to a digitized image captured by the PCD digital camera; the first PCD configured to serve as a mobile condition reporting device configured to detect a road condition at a location and to send a detected road condition data to a computer network; and the first PCD being configured to select a road condition, wherein the detected road condition data comprises a digitized image with the GPS location data and a tag based on the selected road condition. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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a plurality of personal communications devices (PCDs), each PCD having a processor and a display comprising a touch screen input device, and being configured to operate as a portable telephone and to send and receive Global Positioning System (GPS) encoded location data; a data provider that collects map data and other data and tags the other data to the map data; each of the PCDs configured to receive map data from the data provider and to show the map on the respective display and to show the position of the PCD as an icon on the map; a first one of the PCDs associated with a first user; the first PCD configured to serve as a mobile condition reporting device adapted to send a road condition data to a central computer system; the first PCD configured so that the first user can select a road status data reflecting the first user'"'"'s observation of a road status, and the first PCD is configured to send the selected road status data to the central computer system; and the first PCD comprising a digital camera configured to associate a GPS location data with a digitized image captured by the PCD digital camera, wherein the road condition data comprises the digitized image with the GPS location data and a tag based on the selected road status. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A system, comprising:
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a plurality of personal communications devices (PCDs), each PCD having a processor and a display comprising a touch screen input device, and being configured to operate as a portable telephone and to send and receive Global Positioning System (GPS) encoded location data; a data provider that collects map data and other data and tags the other data to the map data; each of the PCDs configured to receive map data from the data provider and to show the map on the respective display and to show the position of the PCD as an icon on the map; a first one of the PCDs associated with a first user; the first PCD configured to serve as a mobile condition reporting device adapted to send a road condition data about a location to a central computer system; the first PCD display configured to show a plurality of road status descriptions and to receive a user input selecting one of the plurality of road status descriptions reflecting the first user'"'"'s observation of a road status, a road status data comprising the selected one of the road status descriptions; wherein the central computer system is configured to make the detected road condition data available to one or more of the other PCDs only if the first PCD sends a security code that identifies the first user as an authorized person; and wherein the road condition data comprises the road status data and the GPS encoded location data corresponding to the location. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39)
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