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Personal navigation system
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In this paper, a personal navigation system, particularly for use by the blind, combines signals from a satellite-based global positioning system, an electronic map, a route-planning algorithm, and a tactile display associated with a speech synthesizer.Citations
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TL;DR: In this paper, an audio-based guide arrangement is provided for guiding a user along a target path by the use of stereo audio cues, where sounds are fed to the user through left and right audio channels and these sounds are varied to indicate the user's divergence from the target path.
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Combined relative and absolute positioning method and apparatus
TL;DR: In this article, a navigation system comprising a rela-tive positioning system (RPS) with dead reckon-ing and map matching and an absolute positioning system is provided and operated in such a manner that APS position information is used for updating RPS (2) position and contour of equal probability (CEP) information as required.
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Portable map display apparatus
Susumu Tachi,Kiyoshi Komoriya +1 more
TL;DR: A portable map display apparatus stores, in a memory, features of a plurality of points on a given map and features of routes connecting such points and, on receiving input signals concerning a given point of start and a given destination, sequentially displays, on an output device, the information on the optimum route to be followed in reaching the destination from the start of start.
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Electronic tourist voice guide system
Raoul Parienti,Marcel Bariou +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a man-machine communicating device consisting of a voice synthesis, analysis and recording circuit, which circuit is capable of using two information sources; a digital optical disk (9), on which tourist information such as hotels, restaurants, works of art and the like is stored in the form of a data base; and a radio message service supplying local information, such as advertisements, events and the likes.