AUTOMATIC VEHICLE GUIDANCE SYSTEM, CONTROL APPARATUS IN AUTOMATIC VEHICLE GUIDANCE SYSTEM, AUTOMATIC VEHICLE GUIDANCE METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE DATA RECORDED MEDIUM IN WHICH AUTOMATIC VEHICLE GUIDANCE SYSTEM PROGRAM IS RECORDED
US6591172B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 25, 2002 |
| Grant date | Jul 8, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 25, 2022 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05D1/0282
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An automatic guidance system is comprised of a navigation apparatus mounted on a vehicle and a control server apparatus fixedly installed in an automatic travel control center which controls traveling in an automatic traveling section. The control server apparatus and the navigation apparatus establish a communication line through a mobile communication network. The navigation apparatus makes a search for a route to a destination. If at least part of the automatic traveling section is used in a route set by the search, the automatic traveling section is registered in the control server apparatus through the communication line.
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