Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation – Determination of travel data based on the start point and...
Reexamination Certificate
2001-01-03
2002-04-30
Cuchlinski, Jr., William A. (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Navigation
Determination of travel data based on the start point and...
C701S214000, C345S215000, C345S215000, C348S556000, C348S552000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06381534
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a navigation information presenting apparatus and its method for presenting navigation information such as a navigation service and a train transfer guide service described in a markup language, in particular, to those for use with a car navigation system, a personal computer (PC), a personal digital assistant (PDA), and a cellular phone (for example, a personal digital cellular (PDC) and a personal handy-phone system (PHS)).
In addition, the present invention relates to a navigation data processing method for presenting, creating, and presenting navigation data, in particular, to a technology for use with a car navigation system, a personal computer (PC), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a cellular phone, and a personal handy phone system (PHS) for providing various types of route information and additional information such as a navigation, a sightseeing guide, a delivery plan, a travel plan, a traffic regulation, a scheduling, an amusement, and local government service.
2. Description of the Related Art
Conventionally, when the user designates a desired destination point (destination position) to a navigation service or a train transfer service, only information about the destination point such as a point, a route, facilities, and so forth is presented. Although a technology for transmitting information at predetermined time intervals is known, a system that processes data corresponding to a condition designated by the user is not known.
In a conventional navigation information service, when the user designates a place for which he or she wants to know, data about the place is presented in a list format. The content that is presented is only information about the place (a point, a route, facilities, and so forth). Thus, the conventional navigation information service cannot flexibly present a route and transit (via) points of the designated place to the user.
In addition, conventional navigation information services provide services in their unique formats. Thus, it is difficult to use navigation information among such systems.
Conventional navigation data includes static data (such as a map, an illustration, and a moving picture) and voice navigation data used for a car navigation system. They are pre-recorded in those systems. Thus, in the related art reference, data that has been created for one system cannot be used for other systems.
In a conventional navigation data presenting method, only data corresponding to a request is output. In a conventional car navigation system, only navigation information is output at a designated place. Thus, in the car navigation system, the timing at which navigation information is presented cannot be actively controlled.
A route creating system has been used in a limited field such as delivery planning field. In such a field, a system for calculating an optimum route has been studied and developed. In other words, in such a system, the content of a guidance that is output to the user is not considered. Of course, a system that automatically creates the content of a guidance is not almost known. In addition, a system that distributes such data through a network is not known.
In such a situation, the inventers of the present invention has proposed a navigation script for describing a sequence of instructions including time information or/and point information and navigation information that is output corresponding to time information or/and point information to be presented and a system that interprets and executes the navigation script as Japanese Patent Application No. 11-113191 “Navigation information Presenting Apparatus, Navigation information Presentation Processing Method, Record Medium for Recording Navigation information Presentation Program, Record Medium for Recording Navigation script, Navigation script Generating Apparatus, Operation Managing Apparatus Using Navigation script, Method Thereof, Record Medium For Recording Program Thereof, Time Adjusting Apparatus Using Navigation script, Method Thereof, Record Medium For Recording Program Thereof, Navigation Plan Creating Apparatus, Method Thereof, Record Medium For Recording Program Thereof, Navigation information Providing Apparatus, Method Thereof, And Record Medium For Recording Program Thereof”.
Thus, in addition to information of a point, a route, and facilities, a real guide and a virtual navigation can be performed along the route to a designated place. In addition to a navigation corresponding to a traveled place, a navigation corresponding to elapsed time can be performed. Moreover, a navigation can be provided in a format used by various systems and apparatuses. For example, by designating a destination, at a transit point along a route, a guide “This facility is famous for ∘∘”. Moreover, in three minutes prior to the arrival to a destination, a guide “We will arrive at &Dgr;&Dgr; in 3 minutes.” is presented corresponding to time and/or point at which the guide is presented. In addition, data for such navigations can be easily created and distributed.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the present invention is to develop and improve the above-described technology for presenting the above-described navigation information. Another object of the present invention is to provide a presenting means that allows restrictions about time representing whether time described in time information (such as departure time, period of stay, and arrival time) is restricted at what important level, restrictions about a point representing whether a point described in point information is restricted as a transit point at what important level, and restrictions about a point representing whether a point can be omitted depending on conditions about time to be described and that outputs navigation information corresponding to the restrictions so as to flexibly present navigation information with respect to time and point.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for presenting navigation data at timings corresponding to situations (such as a guide that is presented in a particular range and a guide that is presented in several minutes prior to the arrival of a particular point) and effectively processing the navigation data corresponding to a user's request. Another object of the present invention is to provide a method that allows navigation data containing navigation information to be automatically created, information to be directly described in text format, and navigation data containing information about a point and a route to be effectively input.
The present invention is a navigation information presenting apparatus for presenting navigation information corresponding to a situation to a user, comprising an inputting device for inputting a navigation script including a sequence of instructions describing navigation information and restriction information according to a predetermined specification, the navigation information being output corresponding to one of time information and point information and to one of presentation time and presentation point, the restriction information corresponding to one of the time information and the point information, a situation device for obtaining one situation of a current time and a current point or generating one situation of a virtual current time and a virtual current point, an adjusting device for adjusting one of time descried in the time information and point described in the point information using the situation obtained or generated by said situation device, one of the time information and the point information, and the restriction information, an executing device for executing an instruction described in an adjusted navigation script corresponding to a situation obtained or generated by said situation device, and a presenting device for outputting navigation information corresponding to the execution of the instruction and presenting the navigation information to the user.
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Maeda Yoshiharu
Naito Hirohisa
Sekiguchi Minoru
Takayama Kuniharu
Marc-Coleman Marthe Y.
Staas & Halsey , LLP
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