Passenger location platform
AssigneeGogo Business Aviation LLC
InventorFrancis Forest
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Abstract
Systems and methods are described to provide navigational guidance to persons within crowded and unfamiliar environments such as aircraft cabins, stadiums, and theaters. An “activation arrangement” may be created to dynamically activate various lighting devices, personal electronic devices, and/or other devices to usher the person from a current location to a destination, such as a seat, entranceway, or lavatory. These techniques may be customized based upon existing conditions within the environment and/or based upon user-personalized settings to improve the comfort of persons in these environments.
Claims18
A computer-implemented method of providing visual aid to a person within a navigable environment, the method comprising:
- receiving, at one or more processors, via respective computing devices associated with each of a plurality of respective persons and disposed within the navigable environment, indications of intent of each of the respective persons to navigate to respective destinations indicated by the respective persons, the destinations being within the navigable environment;
- determining, via the one or more processors, current locations of the respective persons within the navigable environment;
- determining, via the one or more processors, based upon the current locations and the destinations, and for each respective person among the respective persons, a respective activation arrangement comprising a respective plurality of visual aid devices installed within the navigable environment to be activated to form a path between the corresponding current location to the corresponding destination of the respective person,
- wherein each respective activation arrangement activates the respective plurality of visual aid devices according to a respective one of a plurality of mutually exclusive colors, such that a first activation arrangement for a first one of the respective persons uses a first one of the plurality of colors and a second activation arrangement for a second one of the respective persons uses a second one of the plurality of colors,
- wherein the first activation arrangement does not use the second color and the second activation arrangement does not use the first color;
- causing, via the one or more processors, activation of the determined respective plurality of visual aid devices for each respective person according to the corresponding respective activation arrangements;
- and
- causing, via the one or more processors, for each of the respective persons, the corresponding respective computing device associated with the respective person to display an indication of the corresponding respective color for the activation arrangement of the respective person.
A computing system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more computer memories storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed via the one or more processors, cause the computing system to:
- receive, via respective computing devices associated with each of a plurality of respective persons and disposed within the navigable environment, indications of intent of each of the respective persons to navigate to respective destinations indicated by the respective persons, the destinations being within the navigable environment;
- determine current locations of the respective persons within the navigable environment;
- determine, based upon the determination of the current locations and the destinations, and for each respective person among the respective persons, a respective activation arrangement comprising a respective plurality of visual aid devices within the navigable environment to be activated to form a path between the corresnding current location to the corresponding destination of the respective person,
- wherein each respective activation arrangement activates the respective plurality of visual aid devices according to a respective one of a plurality of mutually exclusive colors, such that a first activation arrangement for a first one of the respective persons uses a first one of the plurality of colors and a second activation arrangement for a second one of the respective persons uses a second one of the plurality of colors, wherein the first activation arrangement does not use the second color and the second activation arrangement does not use the first color;
- cause the determined respective plurality of visual aid devices for each respective person to activate according to the corresponding respective activation arrangements;
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- cause, for each of the respective persons, the corresponding respective computing device associated with the respective person to display an indication of the corresponding respective color for the activation arrangement of the respective person.
The computing system of claim/1, wherein, for a particular person among the plurality of respective persons, the corresponding respective activation arrangement for the particular person further comprises one or more haptic aid devices to be activated within the navigable environment, and
- wherein the computer-executable instructions, when executed via the one or more processors, further cause the computing system to cause the one or more haptic aid devices to activate according to the corresponding respective activation arrangement for the particular person to guide the particular person from the current location of the particular person to the destination of the particular erson.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.