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Added by Kaos2K on 6.05.2012 |
Tourism elevated to the next level
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The new patent would allow lost visitors to be guided indoors to the place they want.
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Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has filled an US patent application for a concept that describes a way to direct lost tourists by beaming position information through an overhead grid of infrared transmitters to a mobile device (DS Lite). The handheld then communicates to a server that lights up floor displays with maps and directions for the tourist to reach its destination inside the building they are visiting.
Here is the patent's abstract:
POSITION DETECTING SYSTEM AND POSITION DETECTING PROGRAM
A plurality of positional information transmitters 100, each of which transmits positional information to which a plurality of unit spaces are each uniquely assigned, are disposed on a ceiling. A mobile terminal 10 receives the positional information transmitted from each of the positional information transmitters 100 and changes a terminal-side image in accordance with the received positional information. Furthermore, the mobile terminal 10 transmits to a server 300 current positional information and operation information indicating an instruction inputted by a user. The server 300 changes, in accordance with the current positional information and the operation information received by the mobile terminal 10, a floor image displayed on a plurality of floor displays 200 disposed on a floor. Thus, it becomes possible to provide a highly interesting and novel position detecting system.
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US Patent & Trademark Office
Nintendo 20120503
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