Personal guide system providing spoken information on an address based on a line of interest of a user
DRIVE
May 28, 2014
The invention relates to a personal guide system for use in a geographical environment, the personal guide system comprising a hearing device configured to be head worn and having at least one speaker for emission of sound towards at least one ear of a user and accommodating an orientation unit for estimating a current orientation of a user's head when the user wears the hearing device in its intended operational position on the user's head. It further has a geographical position unit configured to estimate a geographical position of the personal guide system and a computational unit configured for retrieving at least one address with an address record in the vicinity of the geographical position, estimating a line of interest for the user in the geographical environment and establishing at least one address as a best estimate along the line of interest for the user and the at least one address with an address record in the vicinity of the geographical position, and controlling a sound generator to output audio signals with spoken information about the at least one address.
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