Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Navigation – Employing position determining equipment
Reexamination Certificate
2007-02-16
2011-12-27
To, Tuan C (Department: 3663)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Navigation
Employing position determining equipment
C340S988000, C340S995130
Reexamination Certificate
active
08086403
ABSTRACT:
Systems, methods, and programs store predicted distance range data, in which distance ranges where a vehicle will be within a specified time are predicted for individual zones and individual time periods, and store traffic data that is created based on traffic circumstances in individual links and individual time periods. The systems, methods, and programs define, based on the predicted distance range data and using the current time as a reference, a temporal sequence of predicted distance ranges centered at the current host vehicle position. The systems, methods, and programs search for a recommended route from the current host vehicle position to the destination among links within each of the defined predicted distance ranges, the recommended route determined by using the traffic data for the time periods that correspond to the predicted distance ranges.
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Aisin AW Co. Ltd.
Oliff & Berridg,e PLC
To Tuan C
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