On-board navigation system having audible tone indicating remaining distance or time in a trip

Patent 5394332 Issued on February 28, 1995. Estimated Expiration Date:

February 28, 2012. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 841798 filed on 02/26/1992

US Classes:

701/211, Having audio or visual route guidance340/988, VEHICLE POSITION INDICATION340/995.2, Intersection turn guidance342/396, Omega701/200, NAVIGATION701/217Using dead-reckoning apparatus

Examiners

Primary: Teska, Kevin J.
Assistant: Louis-Jacques, Jacques H.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas

International Class

G06G 007/78

Foreign Application Priority Data

1991-03-18 JP

Abstract

The present invention relates to an on-board navigation system which continuously informs a driver of the degree of approach of a vehicle to a destination by outputting a sound suited to the driver's actual running feeling.