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The system addresses indoor navigation challenges by using generative models and real-time location updates for accurate, multilingual guidance without requiring costly infrastructure.
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- JP · JP
- Patent Type
- Applications
- Current Assignee / Owner
- SOFTBANK GROUP CORP
- Filing Date
- 2024-12-10
- Publication Date
- 2026-06-22
AI Technical Summary
Conventional indoor navigation systems face challenges with difficult-to-understand guide maps, insufficient multilingual support, and the need for high-cost infrastructure to provide accurate location-based guidance in indoor environments.
A system that uses user location information acquisition, floor map retrieval via web search, and generative models to generate travel routes, providing multilingual guidance in a conversational format, and enabling accurate rerouting using camera image analysis and real-time location updates.
Enables low-cost, highly accurate indoor guidance that supports multiple languages and adapts to user changes in real-time, reducing the need for dedicated hardware installations.
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