Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation – Employing position determining equipment
Patent
1997-03-11
1999-11-16
Chin, Gary
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Navigation
Employing position determining equipment
701202, 701210, 340990, 340995, G06F16500
Patent
active
059873817
ABSTRACT:
A method of enabling an on-board vehicle navigation system to compute a route from a current position of the vehicle to a desired destination is provided. A user of the navigation system in a vehicle utilizes a cellular telephone or any other wireless, two-way audio communications link to contact an operator in a remote communications center. The user informs the operator of his desired destination. The operator in the communications center accesses a computer database to determine the exact location of the desired destination in terms of latitude/longitude, street address, or other similar information. The operator then causes the information specifying the exact location to be transmitted from the communications center to the on-board vehicle navigation system over a data link. The on-board vehicle navigation system receives the location information and uses it to compute a route from the vehicle's current position to the desired destination.
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Chin Gary
Visteon Technologies, LLC
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