WIRELESS NAVIGATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND SYSTEM

• US 20170146352A1
• Filed: 01/02/2017
• Published: 05/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Christopher Michaels
• Original Assignee: Christopher Michaels
• Inventors: MICHAELS, Christopher
• Granted Patent: US 10,976,169 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/343 Calculating itineraries, i.e. routes leading from a starting point to a series of categorical destinations using a global route restraint, round trips, touristic trips travelling salesman problem G06Q10/04; optimisation of routes G06Q10/047
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3629 Guidance using speech or audio output, e.g. text-to-speech text to speech systems per se G10L13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3644 Landmark guidance, e.g. using POIs or conspicuous other objects
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3673 Labelling using text of road map data items, e.g. road names, POI names
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/45 by combining measurements of signals from the satellite radio beacon positioning system with a supplementary measurement

Abstract

A wireless navigation system with automatic guidance to the final destination/routes capable of operating in Internet-dead zones includes a system of servers containing data of final destinations/routes, Google and/or Apple Maps API, a voice synthesizer server, a GPS/AGPS system of satellites, servers and processing stations, a set of sensors, a microprocessor, a standard mobile operating system, a supra operating system controlling the above systems and a display and sound system for displaying the final output of the system.

Claims

1. A wireless automatic navigation system comprising:

a destination and route database server;

a web mapping server;

a navigation module;

an array of sensors;

a microprocessor;

a mobile operating system;

a supra operating system; and

a display and sound module for displaying the output of the navigation system.

2. The wireless automatic navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the web mapping server contains API data from a web mapping service application selected from a group consisting of Google Maps, Apple Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Bing Maps, MapQuest, OpenStreetMap, and Nokia Here.

3. The wireless automatic navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the navigation module receives positional information from positioning/navigation satellites selected from at least one of GPS, GLONASS, COMPASS, Galileo, or IRNSS.

4. The wireless automatic navigation system according to claim 3, wherein the navigation module further receives positional information from A-GPS mobile stations.

5. The wireless automatic navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the array of sensors comprise a magnetometer sensor, a gyroscope sensor, an accelerometer sensor, a light sensor, a microphone sensor, a proximity sensor, and a pressure sensor.

6. The wireless automatic navigation system according to claim 5, wherein the array of sensors further comprises a chemical sensor.

7. The wireless automatic navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile operating system is Android, Symbian, Apple iOS, BlackBerry, MeeGo, Windows Phone, or Bada.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a voice synthesizer server.

9. An automatic guidance method employing a wireless automatic navigation system, the method comprising:

1) obtaining a destination, a route and landmarks from a destination and route database server, and overlaying the destination, the route and the landmarks upon a standard mapping application, identifying the GPS coordinates for where the landmarks are located, assigning serial numbers to the landmark identifiers, and calculating the length of each segment from where the user is located in real-time to the said landmark identifiers under control of a supra operating system.

2) receiving signals via a navigation module and employing an array of sensors to determine a GPS location of a wireless device employing said wireless automatic navigation system on an area;

3) relating the GPS location to the route and displaying a pointer on the standard mapping application, said pointer indicating a direction from the GPS location to a next landmark along the route;

4) aligning the wireless device with the pointer while moving towards the next landmark such that longitudinal axis of the wireless device matches the direction specified by the pointer; and

5) repeating steps

     1)-4) until the next landmark is the destination.

10. The automatic guidance method according to claim 9, further comprising a step between step 4) and 5) wherein the supra operation system issues graphic and sound instructions for the direction to be followed.

11. The automatic guidance method according to claim 9, in which the standard mapping application is selected from a group consisting of Google Maps, Apple Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Bing Maps, MapQuest, OpenStreetMap, and Nokia Here.

12. The automatic guidance method according to claim 9, in which the navigation module receives positional information from GPS satellites.

13. The automatic guidance method according to claim 12, in which the navigation module further receives positional information from A-GPS mobile stations.

14. The automatic guidance method according to claim 13, in which the navigation module only receives positional information from the A-GPS mobile stations where there is internet connectivity.

15. The automatic guidance method according to claim 13, in which the navigation module only receives positional information from the GPS satellites where there is no internet connectivity.

16. The automatic guidance method according to claim 9, in which the array of sensors comprise a magnetometer sensor, a gyroscope sensor, an accelerometer sensor, a light sensor, a microphone sensor, a proximity sensor, and a pressure sensor.

17. The automatic guidance method according to claim 16, in which the array of sensors further comprises a chemical sensor.

18. The automatic guidance method according to claim 9, in which the landmark identifiers are at least one of photos, videos and sound.

19. The automatic guidance method according to claim 9, further comprising a step between 4) and 5) wherein the supra operation system switches landmark identifiers.

20. The automatic guidance method according to claim 9, further comprising a step between 4) and 5) wherein the supra operation system switches display mode between a regular mode and a full-screen mode.