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Interactive multimedia tour guide

Details

Inventors: Whitham, Charles Lamont;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Cuchlinski, Jr.; William A.
Assistant Examiner: Marc-Coleman; Marthe Y.
Attorney, Agent or Firm:

An interactive multimedia tour guide provides a user with packaged tours in a multimedia format that includes directions and useful information about a selected tour. The packaged tours are composed of principle and ancillary points of interest. A user profile is developed which is used to generate a preference mask for the user. The preference mask is used to select only those ancillary points of interest that would be of most interest to the user. The selected tour is stored on a portable self-contained electronic system which includes a GPS navigation system and cell phone. The system includes voice recognition software and speech synthesis software to provide the user with a verbal interface That provides directions and information on various points of interest during the tour. Combined with optional camera, the interactive multimedia tour guide allows for rapid identification and editing of pictures or videos made on a tour.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an interactive multimedia tour guide which provides a user an experience equivalent to having a personal tour guide.
It is another object of the invention to provide an interactive multimedia tour guide which is portable, allowing the user to carry the interactive multimedia tour guide with them on foot, on a bicycle, or in an automobile or other conveyance.
It is a further object of the invention to provide an interactive multimedia tour guide which allows the user complete flexibility not only in the planning of a trip, but also during the trip.
It is yet another object of the invention to provide an interactive multimedia tour guide which allows the user a choice of language with which to interact with the tour guide thereby providing the user with the equivalent of a translator.
It is still a further object of the invention to provide an interactive multimedia tour guide which includes an optional digital camera connection so that a picture or video taken with the camera will be automatically date and time stamped and provided with the location and a brief description of the subject of the picture.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the interactive multimedia tour guide is implemented using a GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) system enabled map program with a GIS (Geographic Information System) database running on a computer.
Tour data are prepackaged and stored on computer readable media, and this data may be correlated to a hard cover book that describes the tours.
The data may be updated online by down loading data from Internet Web sites prior to taking a tour.
In addition, for those destinations having a Web site, the interactive multimedia tour guide may access that Web site via a wireless phone, such as a cell phone, on approach to the destination as determined by the GPS system.
The interactive multimedia tour guide can be used in several ways.
First, the interactive multimedia tour guide can be used in a home computer system to preview tours, much as a hard cover book equivalent would be used, by accessing the GIS database

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