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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7974776 | System and method for providing origin and destination guide information A system for providing origin and destination guide information selects an origin position of a vehicle, and selects a destination link that is a road near the destination in consideration of a position and a type (crossroads, apartment complex, park, or superhighwa... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7949464 | Method of operating a navigation system to provide parking availability information A method of operating a navigation system includes obtaining a destination location and identifying a parking facility proximate said destination location. The method further includes transmitting a parking message including a determined parking availability. The de... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941267 | Methods, systems and computer program products for ride matching based on selection criteria and driver characteristic information Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for matching a passenger with a driver for a trip to a destination. Characteristic information about a plurality of drivers is received and a plurality of selection criteria are received from the passenger.... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7925428 | Method and apparatus for efficiently storing map data regarding calculated route for navigation system A method and apparatus for a navigation system efficiently stores the data associated with a calculated route to the destination in a backup memory by incorporating a direction coding method. The method and apparatus can be advantageously implemented in such a situa... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925547 | Method of configuring a personalized consumer rating area A method of configuring a personalized geographical area for a user. An electronic system for providing a geographical-based service (e.g., a business directory, mapping, consumer opinions) obtains information regarding locations that can be associated with the user... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925427 | Metropolitan navigation system In embodiments herein, a desired destination is received from user input as an end location. The embodiments can determine the current position (the beginning location) based on automated positioning and/or user input. Thus, the embodiments can calculate potential r... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925429 | Personal GPS navigation device A navigation device is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the navigation device includes a storage device to store map information; a processor to determine a route of travel based upon a current position of the navigation device and an input or sel... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7925430 | Presenting a travel route Techniques are provided for presenting a route using a route presentation that provides both a context map and one or more detail route maps. Narrative instructions for the route also may be presented. The presentation of the context map and the one or more detail r... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7921114 | Capturing and combining media data and geodata in a composite file Systems and methods are provided for capturing and combining media data and geodata into a composite file. The system may include a media data capture module configured to capture media data at a plurality of geographic locations along a path in a geographic area, a... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7912880 | Computerized national online parcel-level map data portal A National Online Parcel-Level Map Data Portal (NPDP) is provided that optimizes online delivery of parcel-level maps and linked attribute data. To do this, the NPDP manages a database of assembled and current vector based parcel data in a spatial format (GIS) that ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904238 | Presenting a travel route using more than one presentation style Techniques are provided for presenting a route in a manner that emphasizes the route and provides context information. For example, a vivid color or vivid colors may be used to display the route, and pastel colors or other desaturated colors may be used for non-rout... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7899614 | Providing route alternatives based on radio strength Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for determining route alternatives from a starting point to an ending destination for a vehicle, based at least in part on radio signal strength and availability. An input ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7890251 | Onboard information terminal and map information providing apparatus and map information providing system using them A map information providing system has a map information providing apparatus 1 and an onboard information terminal 3. The map information providing apparatus 1 selects a road represented by the coordinate point string data indicating a newly est... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890250 | Navigation system and controlling method for the motor vehicle A navigation system (20) includes a transceiver unit (210), a display unit (250), an input unit (260) and an ECU (230). The transceiver unit (210) transmits a signal for demanding a detection of a navigation path to a path d... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885762 | Destination display apparatus and destination display method A destination display apparatus includes: a position obtaining unit (114) which obtains a current position of a mobile terminal; a situation obtaining unit (100) which obtains a current situation of the mobile terminal; a history accumulating unit (... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7885761 | Destination display apparatus and destination display method A destination display apparatus includes: a position obtaining unit (114) which obtains a current position of a mobile terminal; a situation obtaining unit (100) which obtains a current situation of the mobile terminal; a history accumulating unit (... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881861 | Networked navigation system A method of providing alternate route possibilities to a first vehicle operator using a first networked navigation device includes determining a first route between a starting position and a travel destination. An alternate route request is transmitted to a second n... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7873466 | Voice-controlled navigation device and method A voice-controlled navigation device includes a voice control unit, a display interface, a recognition unit, and a start unit. The voice control unit receives at least one voice command, the display interface displays a menu, and the recognition unit is used for rec... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7869939 | Route guide data creation device, route guide data creation method, and route guide distribution device A route guide data creation device for acquiring travel data transmitted from a vehicle traveling on a road according to a predetermined travel route and travel time and creating route guide data according to the data. The route guide data creation device acquires t... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7869940 | Method and system for gathering and processing data for road use charging A method for processing road use data. A first moving vehicle has an encounter with vehicles in motion. An apparatus in the first vehicle generates and stores encounter records for the encounters. Each encounter record includes a location of the first moving vehicle... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865298 | System and method for providing route information to a driver of a vehicle A system and method for providing route information to a driver of a vehicle given a predetermined destination having more than one route available to reach the predetermined destination includes receiving a driver input indicating a vehicle operating preference. Op... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7865297 | Methods for obtaining a navigation track between a first and a second location based on location information shared between peer devices and related devices and computer program products A first device is operated to obtain a navigation track between a first location and a second location by establishing a peer-to-peer communication connection with a second device and receiving a message that contains information associated with the first location a... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7860645 | System and method for providing telematics service The telematics service providing system generates a path from the departure point to the destination based on traffic information, generates guidance information for each guidance point where a turn to a direction that is different from the current progress directio... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7856311 | Information providing device An information providing system that provides information to a traveling user, includes a visit history record unit which detects that the user visits a place which is away from a user's living area in order to generate a travel history, and records, as a visit hist... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7848880 | Traffic information adaptive to a user's travel A system, method, and computer-readable medium for providing a traffic information service user with traffic information adaptive to the user's travel are described. The user's origin information, such as departure location and departure time, are identified. Upon i... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844393 | Vehicle navigation system and method Route guidance is provided for traveling to a lane opposite to a present traveling lane. If a user operates a return button, a main control unit calculates a position closest to a present position in a lane of the traveling direction opposite to that of a present tr... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7844394 | Turn-by-turn navigation system and next direction guidance method using the same A turn-by-turn navigation system includes a positioning module receiving position information and updating real time road information on a road where a car is currently located, a map database storing map information required for driving the car, a route planning/ro... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7835855 | Weather information notification apparatus and program for same A navigation apparatus acquires weather information along a navigation route to a destination from an information center and calculates an importance that is assigned to the weather information based on a predetermined criterion as well as a determination mode and a... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7822539 | Guide route search device and guide route search method There are provided a guide route search device and a guide route search method for searching a guide route via a plurality of points as well as a computer program for realizing the method. A guide route satisfying the route point condition such as a stay time at eac... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7818116 | Presenting a travel route in a ground-based vehicle Techniques are provided for displaying a map for a route in a ground-based vehicle. The map includes a variable road network map showing finer detail for geographic features near the route and less detail for geographic features farther from the route. The map is di... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7818117 | System and method for integrating and displaying travel advices gathered from a plurality of reliable sources A computerized travel system and a method for providing advices and warnings per travel destination to end-users. The system has a client service module for receiving queries from the end-users, and delivering to them merged reports of travel advices and warnings fo... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7809499 | System, navigation method, medium, and information set When traveling to a destination reported in a television broadcast or the like, the user has had to make a memo while watching the television and, when actually traveling by car, the user has had to enter necessary information into an in-vehicle terminal by looking ... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7805442 | Method and system for representation of geographical features in a computer-based system Cartographic data is represented using polynomial splines. To improve representation accuracy and reduce storage requirements, a database storing data points (shape points and nodes) is converted into a database of spline control points. The spline control points ar... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7805239 | Method of operating a navigation system to provide parking availability information A method of operating a navigation system includes obtaining a destination location and identifying a parking facility proximate said destination location. The method further includes providing historic parking availability information for the identified parking fac... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7801904 | Navigation system with distributed computing architecture A system and method for providing geographic data to end users' computing platforms. A server maintains downloadable geographic data that are organized into pre-computed parcels that correspond to pre-determined sub-areas into which the entire geographic region serv... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7788026 | Method and navigation system for determining routes to a plurality of final destination points A method for ascertaining routes in a route network is provided, in which an optimal route to a target of a certain category can be determined. A route is calculated from a point of origin to an optimal target point from a plurality of spatially separated target poi... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7778771 | Travel control system for travel vehicle and travel vehicle A travel control system for controlling a travel vehicle to advance from a first travel course toward a predetermined one of a plurality of second travel courses includes a destination information provider providing to the travel vehicle destination information indi... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7761225 | Routing method and system A routing method and system. The method includes receiving by a global positioning satellite (GPS) transceiver, a user profile comprising user preference data and destination location data. The GPS transceiver retrieves first geospatial coordinate values for a curre... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7711474 | Method for the automatic calculation of optimum routes A method for automatically calculating optimum routes in a traffic-route network is provided, taking into consideration at least one set, fixed route section, where the traffic-route network is described by segments for traffic-route sections, weighted with a resist... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7702454 | Presenting a travel route Techniques are provided for presenting a route using a route presentation that provides both a context map and one or more detail route maps. Narrative instructions for the route also may be presented. The presentation of the context map and the one or more detail r... | 04/20/2010 |
