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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023
Filed:
May. 22, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Joan Byamugisha, Johannesburg, ZA;
Richard Allen Young, Johannesburg, ZA;
Toby Kurien, Midrand, ZA;
Naweed Aghmad Khan, Johannesburg, ZA;
Maletsabisa Molapo, Pretoria, ZA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Method, systems, and apparatus to facilitate navigation in a known environment. Communication and tracking between a receiver device and one or more beacons are provided to identify a current position of the receiver device. A direction to a next waypoint of a current path is determined based on the identified current position and a haptic feedback system is signaled to provide continuous haptic feedback to orient a user in the identified direction.