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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7636628 | Map information display apparatus and method thereof A map information display apparatus that displays a map for a mobile object includes: a grouping unit (111) that divides a map included in an image displayed by a map display unit (115) into a plurality of areas; a display position determination unit (... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7636629 | Map information display apparatus and method thereof A map information display apparatus that displays a map for a mobile object includes: a grouping unit (111) that divides a map included in an image displayed by a map display unit (115) into a plurality of areas; a display position determination unit (... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7630830 | Navigation apparatus, driving direction guidance method, and navigation system A navigation apparatus and a driving direction guiding method are capable of clearly indicating a correct direction in which a vehicle should be driven at an exit when the vehicle exits a parking area through the exit. When a position measurement unit detects that t... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7627421 | Facility-guidance process, facility-guidance apparatus, and computer-readable medium storing facility-guidance program In a facility-guidance apparatus realized in a computer by execution of a program for guiding a visitor to an exhibition place in a facility, character information indicating characters of articles exhibited at each of exhibition places is stored in advance in corre... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7627420 | Image processing system, method and apparatus for correlating position data with image data A navigation system includes a processing unit for generating route data relating to a route along which a vehicle has actually traveled, from position data acquired by a position acquiring unit, an image data acquiring section for acquiring image data, a first stor... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7623958 | Navigational device for installation in a vehicle and a method for doing same A navigation assembly (177i) comprising a carrying case (178i), a cradle (179i), a navigational device (10i), and a speaker (57i) is provided. The carrying case (178i) is sized and c... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7623959 | Method and system for providing voice-based supplementary information service using road map data The present invention relates to a method and system for providing voice-based supplementary information service using road map data. The voice-based supplementary information service system includes a content registration server for receiving content for the voice-... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7620492 | Electronic device and method for executing functions In an electronic device, in particular a navigation device, having operator-input devices and communications devices for exchanging data with an external, central computer, at least one operator-input device is assigned a function for sending a specific input-identi... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7617042 | Computing and harnessing inferences about the timing, duration, and nature of motion and cessation of motion with applications to mobile computing and communications An information delivery system comprises a receiver component that receives information about the movement, velocity, acceleration, and/or locations over time of a user. A computation component using a predictive model generates a probability distribution relating t... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7610144 | Navigation apparatus and processing method of the same A navigation apparatus includes a receiving section for receiving program via a communication unit, a driving determining section for determining whether a vehicle equipped with the navigation apparatus is running or not if receiving a start request for the program,... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7596448 | Navigation system for a motorcycle, and motorcycle incorporating same An arrangement of motorcycle navigation system components enables both a meter display unit and a navigation display unit to be easily viewed by the vehicle operator. A motorcycle includes a meter display unit for displaying drive information such as a vehicle speed... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7593810 | Interactive route guide device An interactive route guide device capable of providing an appropriate amount of information with an appropriate timing in accordance with a user's desire. In the interactive route guide device, a storage device stores at least one table which defines a type of guide... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7577516 | Power management apparatus and methods for portable data terminals In accordance with at least one embodiment, a portable data terminal generally comprising a battery: a central controller, a GPS system, and an auxiliary processor. The central controller that has a sleep state wherein at least some of the functionality of the centr... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7577517 | Guided vehicle system and teaching method in the guided vehicle system Each of guided vehicles has an operating condition memory unit for storing the total travel distance, the travel time, the number of travels, the number of errors at a stop position, and the number of article transfers. These values are evaluated by an evaluation un... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7577515 | Navigation apparatus, update data providing apparatus and update data providing method A type of data among road data, route search data and route guidance data or a type of background data is specified to be updated. When updating either one of the road data, the route search data and the route guidance data, the entire data of the corresponding type... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7567868 | Guidance system A guidance system and a method for guiding passengers in an elevator system. The elevator system including a number of elevators, receiving and allocating passenger's destination call data, and implementing data transfer between the elevator system and the guidance ... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7561958 | Information providing system and navigation apparatus In an information providing system insertion of a card into a navigation apparatus is detected, and information about a facility specifically related to the card is provided. If one of a wireless communication card, a memory card, an ETC card, an HDD card, and a cre... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7546202 | Navigation apparatus and method for searching for point of interest using the same Searching for a Point of Interest (POI) in a navigation apparatus includes accessing a preset driving route that includes a group of route points. A POI is associated with each route point in the group. The associated POIs are stored in a first storing unit. A curre... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7536255 | Sensor or networks with server and information processing system, method and program An information processing device (central apparatus (2)) in a sensor network system is arranged so as to include an input-output processing section (101); an information converting section (103) and a resource specification information recognizi... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7532975 | Imaging apparatus for vehicles A vehicle is provided with a plurality of imaging cameras for imaging the front left side, front right side, rear left side, rear right side and rear side. Imaging conditions such as a position where the imaging is scheduled, imaging camera used for the imaging, veh... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7526377 | Route calculation around traffic obstacles using marked diversions A vehicle navigation system (100; FIG. 1) that includes a route calculation module (204; FIG. 2) that is operable to use marked diversions to avoid traffic events. The navigation system includes a simulation module (212) that is us... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522993 | Traffic information system for vehicles using wireless peer to peer (P2P) connections The invention relates to a device for either generating or maintaining an organic data network having an dynamic topology, comprising a data processing unit, at least one data connection to a data network to which ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522992 | Technique for effective navigation based on user preferences In a navigation device in accordance with the invention, user profiles may be stored and used to navigate a user who may be driving in a vehicle, on foot, or in other mode of transportation. Each user profile corresponds to one of the user's personae. For example, t... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7519468 | System and method for navigating a mobile device user interface with a directional sensing device A manual input navigation device and a sensor are utilized to manipulate graphical elements in a mobile device graphical user interface. The manual input navigation device generates an input navigation signal for altering a relative position of the graphical element... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7519469 | Display method and apparatus for navigation system A navigation system is designed to scale a map image such that a redrawn map image shows an icon of the most relevant object at a center of a cursor when the scale of the map image is changed so that the user will not lose sight of the most relevant object such as a... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7512484 | Smart storage and transmission of navigation information A method of formatting navigation information is disclosed. The method can establish various different regions on a map. These regions can include varying levels of detail. Some of the regions can include more details than other regions. The regions can have differe... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7512482 | Navigation apparatus A navigation apparatus includes notification means for notifying an advance direction at a branching point in a route guiding, storage means for storing a plurality of moving methods and notification methods corresponding to the respective moving methods, input mean... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7512483 | Navigation system According to the 1st aspect of the invention, a navigation system comprises: a storage unit that stores map data managed with links representing smallest road units; a road map display unit that displays a road map based upon the map data; a depressed position detec... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7499796 | Driver information device A driver information device with a map display is designed in such a way as to make the map display clear and easy to read. This is achieved, in cases where multiple special objects are situated at one location on the map, through the use of an indicator symbol repr... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7490003 | System and method for providing a location snapshot service and associating a snapshot with location container data A system and method for providing a location snapshot service and associating a snapshot with location container data. The system includes a snapshot service for detecting the position of the computing device. The position of the computing device is associated with ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7483785 | Navigation apparatus A storage medium of a car navigation apparatus holds painted road sign information that is linked to a running lane of an approach road around an intersection. Suppose that a direction of an exit road with respect to an approach road at an intersection belongs to a ... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7474958 | Information providing method for vehicle and information providing apparatus for vehicle A user aboard a vehicle having installed therein an on-vehicle apparatus originates a call to an information center to indicate the specific type of information the user wishes to receive by following audio guidance provided by an interactive voice response device i... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7472018 | Vehicle guidance system A method is provided for generating control variables for guiding a motor vehicle as a function of input quantities representing the traffic situation, and as a function of dynamically changeable parameters. The method provides that a single evaluation quantity is f... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7469182 | Intelligent geocoding of location information A geocoding method including receiving input location information (212) for a particular location, decomposing (210) and purifying (220) the input information before decomposing (230) the information, and generating (240) multiple ... | 12/23/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7440845 | Navigational device for installation in a vehicle and a method for doing same A navigation assembly (5l) for mounting a navigational device (10l) in an open port (12l) of a vehicle resulting from removal of a non-navigational component is provided. The navigation assembly (5l) broadly co... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7440846 | Vehicle information collection system having point issuing device A vehicle information collection system is disclosed for receiving vehicle information by way of a communication network and storing the vehicle information. The vehicle information collection system comprises: a vehicle information collection device for collecting ... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7439878 | Apparatus and method for processing and displaying traffic information in an automotive navigation system A vehicle navigation system for use with a traffic information broadcast system which transmits traffic data relating to primary road segments and a communication system which transmits traffic data relating to road segments in a local geographic area. A broadcast r... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7437240 | Navigation system and program for controlling the same A navigation system, having a route calculation unit for providing a navigation route from a start point to a destination based on an evaluation of a plurality of cost parameters by an evaluation function, includes a storage unit for storing a weighting factor deter... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7437242 | Navigation apparatus A navigation apparatus mounted on a vehicle is equipped with a first gyro sensor and a second gyro sensor arranged in symmetry with respect to a first axis in a travel direction of the vehicle and to a second axis that passes through the center of gravity of the veh... | 10/14/2008 |
