Patent · US Expired

Communications navigation system, and navigation base apparatus and navigation apparatus both used in the navigation system

US6314369A · kind A · utility

150Cited by
12References
24Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateJul 1, 1999
Grant dateNov 6, 2001
Priority date
Expiry dateJul 1, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG08G1/096872
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a communications navigation system, data is transmitted and received between a navigation base apparatus provided at a navigation base and each of a plurality of navigation apparatuses provided in moving bodies such as vehicles using communication. A determining section of the navigation base apparatus determines untraveled route portion by comparing user's information stored in a user information storage with information of a recommended route provided by a route search section. The navigation base apparatus extracts necessary route/guidance information for untraveled route portion determined by the determining section from route/guidance data stored in a database, and then transmits the extracted route/guidance data to the navigation apparatus identified by the identification information. The route/guidance information may be transmitted to the navigation apparatus in the form of segmented data. In this way, it becomes possible for the navigation apparatus to extract only the route/guidance information needed by the user from the route/guidance data stored in the database.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.