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Place guidance system

US7058506B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJun 14, 2004
Grant dateJun 6, 2006
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Expiry dateSep 8, 2024

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG08G1/005
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

There are provided a positioning section for locating a current position, a travel history database for storing a history of a current position located by the positioning section and a history of a travel to an institution or the like actually visited by walking or so from at least one geographic point in the history, and a destination predicting section for predicting a destination on the basis of a history of using an institution actually visited by walking or so stored in the travel history database. This makes it possible to practically predict as a destination an institution actually visited by walking or so.

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