Method and apparatus for customer/passenger wayfinding using boarding pass barcode scanning capabilities on low-cost display devices
US8849560B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 29, 2011 |
| Grant date | Sep 30, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 26, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG08G1/096827
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A low-cost display unit that displays wayfinding information to a traveler in a public travel-related area is disclosed and may include a communication interface that facilitates receiving of travel-related information, a machine-readable marking reader that determines the presence of a travel document having one or more machine readable markings, scans the one or more machine-readable markings, and decodes the scanned one or more machine-readable markings, wherein the one or more machine-readable markings contain encoded traveled-related information pertaining to the traveler; and a display control unit that receives the decoded one or more machine-readable marking, determines the traveler's destination in the public travel-related area from the decoded one or more machine-readable markings, determines the path that the traveler should travel to reach the destination, and displays the determined path to the traveler on the low-cost display unit.
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