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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8145423 | Navigaton device and route guiding method therefor A navigation device and a route guiding method. The route guiding method includes: displaying a current map including a position indicator; displaying a related map that corresponds to the current map; and displaying the current map after a set period of time has el... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8018354 | Onboard display device and display method for onboard display device An onboard display device has a pickup unit that picks up nighttime environment to acquire a nightview image, a display that can display a nightview image together with a map image, and a display control unit that displays an information-providing image that is diff... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7388519 | Displaying points of interest with qualitative information A method is disclosed for associating and displaying qualitative information with points of interest in a graphical map. In one embodiment, a method comprises the computer-implemented steps of displaying a geographical map; displaying in the map, concurrently, icons... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7376510 | Map display for a navigation system A system and method are disclosed for displaying map information on a portable computing device. When approaching a location at which maneuvering guidance is to be provided by the portable computing device, the portable computing device presents alternating images o... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7292936 | System and method for displaying information A system and method for displaying information is disclosed. The system and method can be used to provide navigation information to a user. In some cases, the system and method can include provisions to retain an indicia within a certain area. The system and method ... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7239962 | Method and apparatus for a routing agent A method and apparatus for a route calculation engine is described. The method of calculating a route to a resource comprises identifying a plurality of locations at which the resource may be available and creating an optimal route through the plurality of locations... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7225076 | Map search system Retrieving an on-map position is executed within a targeted search area that is one of search areas. Search information items are stored for retrieving. Each of the search information items is related to one of the search areas. Area-designating information items ar... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7046168 | Inter-vehicle communication method and device An inter-vehicle communication method according to the present invention performs communication by sequentially relaying transmission information among vehicles. For broadcasting the transmission information to peripheral vehicles, a vehicle transmitting the transmi... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6950743 | Navigation system and program for navigation system setup In order to simplify the setting of interchanges for getting on and off, a navigation system has an information retrieval processing unit for obtaining map data and interchanges for getting on and off, a display unit which displays a setup screen for displaying a ma... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6944535 | Map display terminal and map display method A map display apparatus and a map display method facilitate detection of the relationship between a destination position or a current position and the surrounding area, even when a detailed map is to be displayed on a narrow display area. A map display terminal disp... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6933860 | Method and apparatus for the display of temporal distance data An electronic device is built including a memory, a processor, and a display. The processor is configured to calculate an array of estimated travel time data from a first location to a plurality of locations within a destination area from a set of situational parame... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6904338 | In-car computing device and method of controlling a cursor for an in-car computing device An in-car computing device comprising a computer unit (12), a display screen (20) for displaying information (54-58, 82), a cursor (62) and option menus with individual option menu items, and a control element (22, 23, 24) for movi... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6895331 | Navigation device and method A navigation device is provided for easily designating a road to be avoided with high accuracy. When a location on a map is designated by a touch panel 7, an avoidance-road setting unit 22 identifies a road existing at or near the location designated, ... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6879909 | Map display control apparatus, map information update apparatus, map information update system and control method thereof A map information update system has: a map display control apparatus; and a map information update apparatus. The map display control apparatus includes a map display control unit, a communication control unit, a map information transmission unit and a map informati... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6853904 | Navigation system In a navigation system, display screen handling PG 2032 prepares hierarchically a plurality of operation screens to receive the setting from the operator, and changes the operation screen displayed on display 208 according to the content of the operati... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6823255 | System and method for distributing information for storage media A system and method for distributing information for storage media, and in particular, for distributing updated navigation data, such as geographical data and navigation application programs, contained on storage media and used in in-vehicle navigation systems. A pl... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6321160 | Navigation apparatus A car navigation apparatus includes a route setting unit for setting a route; an own car position detection unit for measuring an own car position and detecting the own car position; and an advance direction detection unit for detecting an advance directi... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6202026 | Map display device and a recording medium A map display device for a vehicle navigation system providing route guidance including an information memory device for storing map data relating to route search and route guidance, as well as other guidance data, an input device for inputting instructio... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6182010 | Method and apparatus for displaying real-time visual information on an automobile pervasive computing client A navigation system, preferably for use in a vehicle. The system includes a processor, and a graphical display for displaying map information. As the vehicle approaches a given location, e.g., an intersection, a visual image of the location is retrieved a... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6121900 | Method of displaying maps for a car navigation unit The invention provides a method of displaying maps for a vehicle navigation unit that displays a wide area map and an expanded map simultaneously on the display screen, and scrolls the detailed map on a cursor screen synchronously with a cursor movement o... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6067502 | Device for displaying map A navigation system has a display screen which can be divided into a plurality of windows for simultaneously displaying different classifications of routes in the same scale, or different routes from a present position or starting point to a destination o... | 05/23/2000 |
| 6006161 | Land vehicle navigation system with multi-screen mode selectivity A land vehicle navigation apparatus provides a present location map and various easily understood guidance information items in conformity with the environmental criteria of a route. The navigation apparatus includes information storage for storing map da... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5982298 | Interactive traffic display and trip planner The invention includes a traffic information system having servers that makes traffic data, images and video clips available to client devices in a common format that is independent of the format used within any particular public highway monitoring system... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5961570 | Display unit for vehicle A car navigation system 11 has a screen change section 19d for changing one screen to a different screen based on a predetermined input signal, a display signal generation section 19c for generating a video signal for displaying the different screen, a li... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5473324 | Map display apparatus The present invention includes a map information storage unit which stores map information, an information read-out device which reads out the map information stored in said map information storage unit, a display which displays on a screen the map inform... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5398188 | Navigation apparatus and method for a vehicle for displaying positional information of the same A navigation apparatus used in a vehicle and associated display method are designed to spot the current position of the vehicle on maps displayed in a base field and a window field of a display screen. The apparatus includes a memory for storing map infor... | 03/14/1995 |
| 4716404 | Image retrieval method and apparatus using annotations as guidance information Image retrieval method and apparatus wherein for retrieval of a plurality of images, a sub-image of each image is specified and extracted, reference data such as memo data related to each sub-image is stored, and the sub-image and the memo data related th... | 12/29/1987 |
