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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179287 | Method and apparatus for communicating map and route guidance information for vehicle navigation A route information supply system comprises a reception module which receives information on a current position and a destination from a terminal device by communication, a map data storage module storing at least detailed map data and summary map data, a traffic in... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7750825 | System and method for navigation of display data Navigating display data (e.g., large documents) on an electronic display is described in which a first set of visual indicators are layered over the portion of the portion of data displayed on the electronic display. The user selects a particular navigation task, wh... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7440830 | Driving support system based on driver visual acquisition capacity In a driving support system, a necessary information amount determining section determines the amount of visual information necessary for safe driving. An information acquisition capacity setting section sets an information acquisition capacity of a driver. A compar... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7430473 | Vehicle navigation display A mobile navigation system includes a graphical display for presentation of map information. Map features are selected for presentation on a display. Characteristics for display are also selected. The characteristics for display include a scale for display that vari... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7375654 | Method and system for providing tracking services to locate an asset The present invention is directed to a method of asset location. Location data is received from a cellular transmitter associated with a selected asset, which location data includes data representative of a cellular receiver with which direct communication with the ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7363150 | On-vehicle information terminal abridged map generation apparatus and abridged map generation method An on-vehicle information terminal generates an abridged map by abridging a map based upon map data and displays the abridged map. The on-vehicle information terminal comprises an abridgment factor setting unit that sets an abridgment factor indicating an extent to ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7343564 | Systems and methods for displaying location-based maps on communication devices Tickers are populated with location-based information that is selected according to the geographic location of communication devices. The location of a communication device is identified based on a GPS system, proximity to transmitters in a wireless network, user in... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7315259 | Techniques for displaying and caching tiled map data on constrained-resource services Techniques are disclosed that enable users to access and use digital mapping systems with constrained-resource services and/or mobile devices (e.g., cell phones and PDAs). In particular, latency of a mapping application on high-latency and low-throughput networks is... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7308359 | Navigation system, method and device with automatic next turn page Systems, devices and methods are provided for an improved navigational route planning device which provides more understandable, accurate and timely information for negotiating a decision point along a route. The navigational aid device includes a processor adapted ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7248965 | Map information supply device for mobile units Disclosed is a arrangements of map information supply device for mobile units. ... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7239964 | Method and apparatus for displaying a map A navigation apparatus and method of displaying a map are provided for scrolling and displaying the map covering the vicinity of a present position such that a relationship with the present position can be constantly recognized. When a request for a surroundi... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7197393 | Method for converting coordinate values of map data The present invention relates to a method for converting coordinate values of map data, wherein three-dimensional effects are displayed on a screen by converting two-dimensional coordinate values of objects constituting a map without using a three-dimensional graphi... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7197500 | System and method for use and storage of geographic data on physical media An improved method and system for storage of data that represent geographic features in a region. The data are organized into parcels each of which contains data that represent those geographic features that are located within a separate one of a plurality of rectan... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7181344 | Database system for navigation device A database system for a global positioning (GPS) vehicular navigation device having a first database including street information data and a second database, including location information data that is independent of the first data. The database system includes a wo... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7173546 | Map display device When a control circuit extracts data of an entity corresponding to a phone number, the control circuit retrieves phone numbers that accord, with respect to lower seven digits of a phone number, with the inputted phone number from among phone numbers included in retr... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7164987 | Map image display apparatus, map image display program, and map image display method A map image display apparatus for displaying a map image with at least one name for entering a command to change the map image, and switching the displayed map image, when accepting the command with the name designated, to a map image in a vicinity of the designated... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7139663 | Terminal apparatus for downloading map A terminal apparatus has a simple map installed therein. When a map is desired, it is checked whether or not a map of a desired place exists in the simple map. If it exists, the map of the desired place is loaded from the simple map, or if it does not exist, the map... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7124022 | Feature mapping between data sets The present invention relates to data mapping and involves the mapping of at least one feature from one data set to a corresponding feature in a second data set. Individual points of the features are initially mapped and an transformation for mapping the entire feat... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7110879 | Method for making available route data for a navigational device For the purpose of making available route data for a navigational device, an overall route is divided up into route segments which each include a part of the overall route. A first route segment is transmitted to the navigational device, upon its request, which arou... | 09/19/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7088266 | Map image display device A map image display device is configured and arranged to improve operability by enabling a map image of a location distant from a currently displayed map image to be appropriately displayed with a simple operation. The map image display device displays names that ar... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7054746 | Navigator A navigator receives, through communication with a server, only such map information or locality information as is considered to be necessary, and stores it by overriding with it already used map information and locality information. Thus, the navigator, despite hav... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7047131 | Apparatus and method for displaying detailed map of selected area An apparatus and method for displaying a detailed map of a selected area of a displayed map received through a network are provided. If a detailed map of a particular area is requested by a user, data on the detailed map for the particular area is provided by a map ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7034839 | Image display system scrolling image at high speed using data compression When a user pushes a scroll-direction key, an ECU obtains, from a memory, a division map corresponding to a division located in a direction designated by the scroll-direction key. The ECU then outputs the division map to a display controller. The display controller ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031834 | Navigation system A vehicle navigation system has a plurality of maps, measurement modes, and operation modes. When the measurement mode is a standard in an accuracy priority mode, low detail rate map is used to display a current position. When the measurement mode is a precise measu... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7006916 | Navigation apparatus The navigation apparatus includes a unit for displaying a real image on a display screen on the basis of real image data, and a unit for displaying additional information such as a primary place name or a primary building name in a position where the additional info... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7006037 | Method for providing location information in mobile communication system Provided is a method for providing location information in a mobile communication system. The method includes the steps of: a) receiving coordinates of current location of a GPS terminal and a request for location information which includes coordinates of geographic... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6978209 | Mobile terminal and navigation system A navigation system for route guidance is provided. The navigation system comprises a navigation server storing map information and the mobile terminal displaying map information. The mobile terminal has access to the navigation server through a communication networ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6971063 | System, method, and apparatus for portable design, deployment, test, and optimization of a communication network A system and method which employ one or more portable hand held computers and one or more servers, allows a field engineer to complete the entire design, deployment, test, optimization, and maintenance cycle required to implement successful communications networks. ... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6960997 | Method for transmitting location-related data between a main station and a mobile terminal, mobile terminal and main station A method for transmitting location-related data information between a main station and a mobile terminal is described, as well as a main station and a mobile terminal are described, which provide a position tracing of the mobile terminal or a navigational applicatio... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6954153 | System and method for communicating map data for vehicle navigation A map data transmitting server is interconnected with a vehicle terminal through a wireless network. The vehicle terminal determines a range of cells of which cell data are required for navigation based on vehicle state information, and requests the map data transmi... | 10/11/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6931320 | Traffic information output device/method and traffic information distribution device/method A traffic information distribution system includes a distribution device for synthesizing pieces of traffic information supplied from a traffic information center, an output device for outputting pieces of traffic information distributed from the distribution device... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6927772 | Method of displaying data Data is reduced to a graphic representation by have a core value which is wrapped by an annulus of a related value, the thickness of the annulus and the base diameter of the core representative of the magnitudes of the data being represented. A third data family can... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6922157 | Electronic device and program An electronic device detects a discontinuous figure in an old-new connection portion between old and new data and performs shape correction so as to restore the continuous figure. In this case, only the old data is corrected. Particular shape correction methods are ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6892135 | Navigation system, method and device with automatic next turn page Systems, devices and methods are provided for an improved navigational route planning device which provides more understandable, accurate and timely information for negotiating a decision point along a route. The navigational aid device includes a processor adapted ... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6889138 | PDA system, method and device with automatic next turn page PDA systems, devices and methods are provided for improved navigational route planning. The PDA provides more understandable, accurate and timely information for negotiating a decision point along a route. The PDA includes a processor operable to communicate with a ... | 05/03/2005 |
