Patent ID: 6499421
Filing Date: 2002-12-31
Classification: G09F,Y10S

Abstract:
A guidance system for providing directional information to a user, comprising:a plurality of multi-directional-capable tactiovisual signs being integral with or affixed to substantially fixed architectural features, each one of the plural multi-directional-capable tactiovisual signs having a plurality of separate spaces, wherein each one of the plural separate spaces is approximately equal in size and corresponds to a direction away from the location of the multi-directional-capable tactiovisual sign, wherein said each one of the plural separate spaces is capable of containing a tactiovisual numeral-symbol pair, wherein said each one of the plural multi-directional-capable signs has at least one tactiovisual numeral-symbol pair, wherein every one of the plural separate spaces whose corresponding direction is a path direction to an exit has a tactiovisual numeral-symbol pair, wherein the absence of a tactiovisual numeral-symbol pair from one or more of said plural separate spaces indicates that the direction corresponding to each of said one or more plural separate spaces is not a path direction to an exit, wherein at least one of the plural separate spaces of at least one of the multi-directional-capable signs does not contain a tactiovisual numeral-symbol pair, and wherein each tactiovisual numeral-symbol pair comprises: a numeral recognizable by touch and sight, the numeral indicating a number of substantially fixed countable architectural features along the path from the location of the multi-directional-capable sign to the exit; and a symbol recognizable by touch and sight, the symbol indicating the path direction to the exit.