摘要 |
An audio-based guide arrangement is provided for guiding a user along a target path (100) by the use of virtual audio beacons (120). The user's current location (121) is sensed and compared to the target path (120). Sounds are fed to the user, for example through stereo headphones, to simulate one or more audio beacons appearing to be located in a direction at least approximating the direction of the target path (120) onward from the user's current position. In a preferred embodiment, as the user approaches the apparent location (125A;B;C) of a beacon, this location is changed thereby causing the audio beacon to appear to move stepwise ahead of the user as the user progresses along the target path (120). Preferably, each successive location (125A;B;C) of the audio beacon is determined by determining a segment (123A;B;C) onward from the user's current position of a piecewise linear approximation to the target path (120), and setting the apparent location of the beacon at or relative to the end of this segment (123A;B;C).
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