Method and apparatus for an interactive tour-guide system
First Claim
1. A system method for providing a guided tour for a user, said method comprising:
- requesting said guided tour;
determining a first location from said user, said first location representing the general locale of said guided tour;
selecting said guided tour based on said first location, said guided tour containing a plurality of exhibits in the vicinity of said first location;
providing directions to said user to enable said user to travel to a given exhibit of said plurality of exhibits;
determining a second location of said user to provide a detected user location; and
providing a description of said given exhibit to said user when said detected user location indicates that said user is near said given exhibit.
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Abstract
An interactive tour guide system includes software downloaded from a tour-guide web site to a PDA (portable digital assistant) or tablet laptop computer. The user indicates his geographic location to the interactive tour-guide device by entry on a dynamic city map. Intelligent agent software responsive to a request from the user creates a customized tour program. The intelligent agent guides the user along the customized tour route by voice, video and/or graphics, and provides information about each exhibit on the tour. The downloaded interactive tour guide system provides interactive guided tours, theme guided tours and a self-guided “wander mode” tour. The virtual tour-guide system can personalize each directed tour by taking individual user expressed preferences into account, and can use collaborative filtering of experiences with prior users to suggest other exhibits which may be of interest to the present user. The interactive tour-guide system responds like a human tour-guide to the needs of the user.
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1. A system method for providing a guided tour for a user, said method comprising:
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requesting said guided tour;
determining a first location from said user, said first location representing the general locale of said guided tour;
selecting said guided tour based on said first location, said guided tour containing a plurality of exhibits in the vicinity of said first location;
providing directions to said user to enable said user to travel to a given exhibit of said plurality of exhibits;
determining a second location of said user to provide a detected user location; and
providing a description of said given exhibit to said user when said detected user location indicates that said user is near said given exhibit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system method using an interactive map for providing a guided tour for a user, said method comprising:
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requesting said guided tour;
determining a first location on said interactive map, said first location representing the location of said user;
selecting said guided tour based on said first location, said guided tour containing a plurality of exhibits in the vicinity of said first location;
providing directions to said user to enable said user to travel to a given exhibit of said plurality of exhibits;
determining a second location on said interactive map, said second location representing a new location of said user; and
providing a description of said given exhibit when said new location indicates that said user is near said given exhibit. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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