Device for position-dependent representation of information

US6889136B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Torsten Herz · Effeltrich, DE
• Bernhard Ober · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 31, 2003
• Grant date: May 3, 2005
• Expiry date: Jan 31, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G08G1/0962
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A device, a method, an adjusting device, and a mobile system for providing location-dependent information. It is proposed to use a device (1) which utilizes a navigation system (2) to detect its own position within an environment in relation to a map (4), in order to reproduce the location-dependent information. The device has a reproduction device (3) for providing the information (I1 . . . Im) associated with the corresponding locations (P1 . . . Pn). To store the information, a storage medium (5) is provided either locally in the device or in a central data memory (9) of a server (7) that is separate from the device. The range (10) around a position (P1 . . . Pn) within which the information is to be provided is defined by parameters, such as by radius (11) and/or by sector (12). An adjusting device (13) with an input screen (14), for entering the parameters, is also preferably provided.