Patent ID: 8457879

Claim:
An information device ( 1 ) for informing persons ( 9 ) or other mobile objects, collectively referred to below as “person” or “persons,” comprising: at least one surveillance camera ( 2 ) which is positioned and/or may be positioned to monitor a monitored area in which persons may be present, at least one output device ( 4 ) for the output of an information signal ( 12 ), a registration module ( 18 ) designed to register a person as a registered person ( 9 ) in the monitored area automatically, via user input or both; and an evaluation device ( 3 ) for the image-assisted detection and/or tracking the registered person ( 9 ) in the monitored area and for activating the output device ( 4 ) to output the information signal ( 12 ) based on the detection and/or tracking of the registered person ( 9 ), wherein the evaluation device ( 3 ) determines a position of the registered person ( 9 ) and activates the least one output device ( 4 ) to selectively output the information signal ( 12 ) to the position and/or to the registered person ( 9 ).