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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8131457 | Navigation terminal device and navigation method A navigation terminal device includes a map information display unit 771, a destination display unit 773, a route line drawing unit 774 for holding retrieved location information or destination information or both of them and drawing a route fro... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8126644 | Travel support system, method thereof, program thereof, and recording medium containing the program A PC of a travel support system displays running video of a predetermined route, and if a predetermined intersection is set as a warning point by a user, sends warning point setting information to a server. If the server acquires the warning point setting informatio... | 02/28/2012 |
| 7930099 | Map distributing device, map acquiring device, map processing system, map distributing method, map acquiring method, map processing program and recording medium storing the map processing program The map updating system (100) includes a server unit (400) and a terminal unit (300, 300A, 300B). The server unit (400) has an updated contents recognizer that recognizes updated contents of updated map information and generates up... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7818125 | Move guidance device, system, method, program and recording medium storing the program that displays a code containing map scale rate and position information Based on a transfer request from a portable terminal though an input operation or communication, a two-dimensional code is generated, the code containing information of a scale rate of map information for guidance displayed on the in-vehicle terminal and a current p... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7683805 | Traffic situation display device, method and program thereof and recording medium with the program recorded therein A processor 180 of a navigation device 100 acquires current position information about a current position of a vehicle. The processor 180 then generates current traffic-jam information about a current traffic-jam condition based on VICS data fro... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7680598 | Information generating apparatus, recording medium where information generating program is recorded, and information generating method When an in-link type of in-link attribute data is a tunnel, a system controller specifies the positions of both ends of a tunnel on the basis of a annotation true position shape of the in-link attribute data, and generates annotation data for displaying a tunnel sym... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7613331 | Recording medium storing map information, map information processing device, map information processing system, map information processing method, map information processing program and recording medium storing the map information processing program A server unit (400) recognizes a travel route search request together with a current position information and a destination information from a terminal unit (300) over a network (200) and searches for a travel route with use of a matching data o... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7599791 | Spot searching device, navigation apparatus, spot searching method, spot searching program, and information recording medium having spot searching program Enabling a partial update of data for spot search and improvement of update operation efficiency. The data for spot search is constituted by (a) a plurality of spot search files RF-k having constitutional elements of POI data, (b) a menu display file MNF for ... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7584434 | System and method of displaying map image A map database site S comprises a map information database Sb for accumulating the map data constructed of units for displaying of unit images m each having a display range smaller than a display range of a map image M corresponding to one page of a map image displa... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7554462 | Information updating device, its method, its program and storing medium storing the program A processor (150) of a map information generating device (100) acquires annotation data for displaying a location adjusting annotation about, for instance, a feature that is newly built and set a locatable position of a location-adjusting-annotation ch... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7536545 | Navigation apparatus, navigation system, method thereof, program thereof, and recording medium thereof A system member of a data processing system 1 operates a terminal 3 to connect a server 5, and further to a site for creating a new group from a main site. A group name is registered, and a group ID and group password are then attained. Based on... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7506811 | Data processing device, method thereof, program thereof, and recording medium recording the program A processing section (250) of a recording/reproducing device (200) acquires content data of a content set by a user, and acquires program-linked data which links with content-main-data, from the content data. The processing section (250) acquire... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7451040 | Data structure of feature guidance information, recording medium storing feature guidance information, navigation device, navigation system, navigation method, navigation program and recording medium storing the navigation program A feature guidance information that provides guidance on a feature has a data structure where a unique information representing a feature position and a guidance position are associated with respective sub-areas so that each sub-area includes at most one of the feat... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7440913 | Commodity order system and commodity order method in commodity order system On the occasion of performing the commodity trading on the Internet, the commodity order system is capable of appropriately checking the credit of a buyer, a seller and, further a distributor, so that it is possible to secure the safety and the certainty of the comm... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7315943 | Method and system for authenticating communication terminals An example authentication system includes a server system provided with a common authentication unit (e.g., first and second authentication units) and a system controller (e.g., an access-permitting unit). The first authentication unit authenticates user-identifying... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7308358 | Navigator, navigation system, navigation method, data processing apparatus, data processing method, program thereof, and recording medium thereof A system member of a data processing system 1 operates a terminal 3 to connect a registration-site server 6, and inputs requirements including personal data. The registration-site server 6 creates customer data from the requirements and p... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7290010 | Service providing retrieval system using computer network A retrieval site (S1) comprises a retrieval server (S1a), a retrieval database (S1b) and a registered fast-food shop database (S1c). Based on a designation entry of a merchandise genre and a destination from an inform... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7266443 | Information processing device, system thereof, method thereof, program thereof and recording medium storing such program A storage section (160) stores a traffic jam prediction table containing a plurality of date classification IDs for classifying data for predetermined dates and time series data obtained by statistically processing past traffic conditions correlated to the da... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7249160 | Electronic mail processing system and mail server An electronic mail (email) processing system set up on the Internet includes terminals that send and receive email messages, cellular telephones that send and receive email messages by radiocommunication through base stations, a mail server that performs the overall... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7167795 | Device, system, method and program for navigation and recording medium storing the program A number of traveling routes are determined by computations, using a route processor and map information on the basis of current position information and destination information. The rating of the current traffic jam or the predicted traffic jam on each of the trave... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7154513 | Method and system for displaying images Vector data indicating a plurality of points for representing an image is classified for storage under three groups: a group 1 of the vector data DP1, DP5, DP9 indicating indispensable points P1, P5, P9 required for recognit... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7146270 | Vehicle allocation processing apparatus, system, method, and program, and recording medium recording the program A vehicle allocation processing apparatus with a rationalized vehicle allocation processing is provided. A server communication section (53) acquires driving status information concerning driving states of vehicles from vehicle communication terminals mounted... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7136744 | Navigation system, method thereof, program thereof and recording medium storing the program Provided is a navigation system that can realize preferable navigation. A server unit (400) recognizes current position information and destination information sent from a terminal unit (300) over a network (200) and searches for a travel route ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7098923 | Navigation terminal device and navigation method A navigation terminal device includes a map information receiving unit for receiving the map of the region around a reference point from the web server by inputting retrieval information; a display screen for displaying the received map; a route line drawing unit fo... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7019731 | Method of using ten-key keypad A ten-key keypad for inputting numerals mounted on a portable telephone T is adapted to a zoom function and a scroll function for operating an image displayed on a display. The user can use the keys of the ten-key keypad to select the mode in which case the keys als... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6993560 | System and method for incorporating ad information into an e-mail In a system and a method for incorporating ad information into e-mails while they are being exchanged, whether area information b is contained in an e-mail M transmitted from a terminal T1 or not is detected. When the area information b is contained, position... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6957250 | Map-information providing system using computer network A map-information providing site S1 has a WWW server S1a for displaying a WWW page for making a designation entry for a request to provide a map image to an information terminal T. A map database site S2 has a map-information database S | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954694 | Communication navigation system and server apparatus and terminal apparatus therefor, communication navigation method and communication navigation program A server apparatus divides map data into a plurality of block data to add identification information to each block data, and sends each block data to a terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus identifies data for each block data sent from the server apparatus and,... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6892132 | Communication navigation system, communication navigation method, map data transmitting device, and terminal unit A communication navigation system that performs navigation, using map data stored in a map database site and current position data about navigation terminals, by transmitting the map data to the navigation terminals via a communication network such as the Internet, ... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6889134 | Communication-type navigation apparatus and server device A communication type navigation apparatus can communicate with a server device via a communication path. The navigation apparatus requests route search, and the server device executes route search to produce route information of a searched route. Then, the meshes ne... | 05/03/2005 |
| 6871142 | Navigation terminal device and navigation method A navigation terminal device includes a map information display unit 771 for displaying, on a screen, the map information containing the location information retrieved by a web server 3, a destination display unit for displaying the destination searche... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6842693 | Communication navigation system, communication navigation method, route guidance information transmitting device, and terminal unit A communication navigation system includes a server that transmits route guidance information to terminal units via a communication network, and a transmitter/receiver, provided in each terminal unit, for transmitting specification data that specifies a type of nece... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6826474 | Communication navigation system and method, communication center apparatus, communication navigation terminal, program storage device and computer data signal embodied in carrier wave A communication navigation system is provided with a communication center apparatus (3) and a communication navigation terminal (5), which perform two-way communication on a communication network (1, 2). The communication center apparatus is pro... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6810325 | Position locating system, server, position locating method, and program A server includes a position estimation section for estimating the current position of a client apparatus based on the already acquired position information when the server cannot acquire position information from the client apparatus and the server requests the cli... | 10/26/2004 |
| 6807571 | Information retrieval system with a search assist server An information retrieval system which can search for requested information by an easy operation. Together with a plurality of information servers, a search assisting server having list data constructed by a list of identifiers to access each of the information serve... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6782267 | Method and system for providing regional information A regional information providing method comprises the steps of: retrieving and obtaining regional information on a desired area from a regional information database site S2 stored with the regional information via the Internet, using a terminal unit T; transm... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6778901 | Communication navigation system, communication navigation method, terminal unit, and route guidance information transmitting apparatus A communication navigation system includes a server that transmits items of route guidance information to terminal units via a communication network such as the Internet, a processing subsystem, provided in each terminal unit, for determining whether or not the item... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6735520 | Map information providing method, map information providing system, and recording medium on which the method programed is recorded A map information providing method, a map information providing system, and a recording medium on which the method programed is recorded is provided, wherein a client terminal unit 3 including a display monitor accesses a map information site (a Web-server | 05/11/2004 |
| 6600990 | Device for copying map-information from car navigation system There are provided a CPU (11A) and an ignition key switch (17) detecting that a vehicle stops, and a transmission circuit (11C) and a transmitter (11D) for transmitting a map-image data for displaying a map image on a display (14) of a car navigation syst... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6591190 | Navigation system A navigation system for displaying guidance in accordance with map data is provided. The navigation system includes a landmark displaying device for displaying structures corresponding to the map data as landmarks. The landmark displaying device sets refe... | 07/08/2003 |
