Navigation method for computing a travel route considering parking place location and occupancy

US6411895B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Robert Bosch GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Lau · Giesen, DE
• Heinrich Schmidt · Düsseldorf, DE
• Ralf Hoffmann

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 13, 2000
• Grant date: Jun 25, 2002
• Expiry date: Jul 13, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01C21/3685
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A navigation method is set forth for calculating a travel route of a vehicle from a starting or an actual vehicle location to an operator-defined destination and for guiding a vehicle operator during operation of the vehicle over and along the calculated travel route, in which at least one possible parking location at the operator-defined destination is designated and the at least one possible parking location is included in the calculating of the travel route as a location to which the vehicle is guided when the operator conducts the vehicle over the travel route. After input of the operator-defined destination into a navigation unit of the vehicle by the operator, the location to which the vehicle is guided over the travel route is determined by the navigation system advantageously automatically taking account of the available parking locations at the input destination. Either the vehicle operator can select between a number of possible parking locations proposed by the navigation system or the navigation system can automatically select the best parking location using a predetermined selection criterion. Thus the operator does not need to know the exact address of the parking loc…