E-Compass │ Consumer Electronics & Mobile Devices │ Electronic Compasses
The New Generation E-CompassElectronic compasses are gaining popularity in hand held and mobile devices primarily driven by the need to orient maps. Electronic compass, generally referred to as e-compass, has the unique ability to orient the map with the viewing direction thus greatly enhancing the user experience. E-compass also allows the mobile device to use any application that requires a geographical directional reference to be useful such as dead-reckoning (DR) navigation and location base services (LBS), two of the most promising applications coming to mobile devices.E-compasses work by detecting the geo-magnetic components of the location and transforming...