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Details
Inventors: Villevieille, Jean-Marc; Tischhauser, Tom;
Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Schaumburg, IL)
Primary Examiner: Issing; Gregory C.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Melamed; Phillip H.

A position/navigation device (10) and method is disclosed wherein a waypoint apparatus (11-14, 18, 43) sequentially designates and stores a continuous ordered sequence of n waypoints corresponding to positions of the device (10). Route and route reversal apparatus, (11-14, 18, 44) selects the stored sequence of n waypoints as a group without designating individual waypoints and forms a reverse route by reversing the order of the stored waypoints. Navigation means (14, 15, 18, 45) provides navigation information to an operator of the device (10) for following the reverse route to each of the n waypoints.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION A position/navigation device and corresponding method is described herein.
The navigation device comprises: waypoint means for sequentially designating and storing a continuous ordered sequence of a plurality of n positions of said position/navigation device as said device is sequentially located in each of said positions, said sequence of positions stored as a continuous ordered sequence of n waypoints; route and route reversal means for selecting said stored sequence of n waypoints, as a group without designating individual waypoints, to form a route indicative of prior position movement of said position/navigation device and for creating a reverse route by reversing the order of said n stored waypoints; and navigation means for providing navigation information for following said reverse route to each of said n waypoints.
A corresponding method is also disclosed.
Additional features and advantages of the present invention are more fully described in the subsequent detailed description of the preferred embodiment of the present invention.



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