33 results about "Navigator Program" patented technology

If it is determined that a course change at a branch point is necessary and a vehicle is traveling on a road in which a lane is added to correspond to a road which is taken after the course change (road before the branch point), “direction guidance” is provided before a road section in which the lane is added (added lane section) and “lane guidance” is provided in the added lane section. As above, by switching the “direction guidance” and the “lane guidance” depending on whether the vehicle has reached the added lane section or not, and by providing either one of the guidances, a driver can recognize the guidance without confusion. Particularly, when the branch point is branched off at a narrow angle and when the added lane is a lane dedicated to the road which is taken after the course change, by providing the lane guidance, instead of the direction guidance indicating left or right, the guidance becomes easier to understand.

In a navigation apparatus, when a user starts to walk along a walking course, the user instructs the navigation apparatus to commence the navigation operation as to this walk course which has been formed/registered thereinto based upon positional information, walking pattern information, and temporal information. The navigation apparatus sequentially compares a present walking speed with another walking speed which was acquired at the same position in the past by executing a walking-speed comparing process operation, and then notifies such an information related to a present walking pace of this user based upon the comparison result with respect to the user.

A common word in Japanese syllabary is extracted from multiple items of the destination data, and the common words thus extracted are stored as search keywords. Furthermore, the search keywords are assigned to each potential destination which may be a search target. When a search is made for a destination, those keywords which match the input characters, in whole or in part, are extracted, and the keywords thus extracted are displayed as selectable keys, thus allowing the location candidates to be narrowed down based upon the input characters and the selected keywords. The priority levels of the extracted location candidates are adjusted according to priority score adjustment rules set by operator input, and the location candidates are displayed in the form of a list in descending order of priority. This allows the extracted location candidates to be displayed in the form of a list in an order matching the user's preference.

In accordance with certain aspects of the present invention, enhancements have been developed to further extend the performance of a generic DVD navigator component. Here, the DVD navigator program has been enhanced to better synchronize with DVD player applications. As such, better control mechanisms for the player application are provided. For example, improved enforcement of restricted/parental controlled content viewing, generation and assignment of unique identifiers to the content source, and an improved user and player application environment for starting and stopping playback are provided.

A navigation device displays, on a screen, a route guidance object indicating a route along which the vehicle is to travel, and includes: an image pickup section that obtains a photographed image ahead of the vehicle; a white line detection section that detects a road white line in the photographed image; a map information storage section that stores map information including road shape data which represents the road shape; a road shape data correction section that corrects the road shape data, based on a detection result of the road white line, such that the route guidance object is displayed along the road white line; a route guidance object generation section that generates the route guidance object, based on the corrected road shape data; and the display section that displays the generated route guidance object on the screen.

A navigation device for a route guidance includes: a GPS unit that acquires information about the current location by performing a communication with a global positioning system (GPS); a navigation-information acquiring unit that acquires map data and route data from a navigation server in a network; a guidance controller that performs the route guidance based on the information; a GPS-communication controller that cuts off the communication with the GPS when the information is not acquired; and a server-communication controller that cuts of a communication with the navigation server when the information is not acquired.

Recognizing that a search target must be particular identifying words, words that are shared by a plurality of sets of destination data are stored as search keywords appended to individual sets of destination data that serve as the search targets. In execution of a search for a destination, keywords that in part match the input characters are displayed as selectable keys. It is possible to reduce user input operations by creating a menu of relevant keywords. Reduction in the number of user operations becomes possible by selecting keywords having three or more characters by a total of two operations, that is, the input of at least one character to retrieve a narrowed down group of keywords and selection of one of the retrieved keywords.

The management system plots the route to be flown in a flight plan, at least partially, by a chaining of published navigation procedures accessible from a NavDB navigation database and constituted of sequences of waypoints and/or turn points associated with specific flight constraints. It comprises a mirror memory storing the latest versions of the published navigation procedures, modified by the crew of the aircraft during the progress of the flight plan and means of substituting these latest versions stored in the mirror memory for the published versions of the navigation procedures during a change in the route predicted in the flight plan obtained by a new chaining of navigation procedures, some of which are taken from the preceding chaining. This makes it possible, during a change of navigation procedure, to take account of specific flight constraints already entered during the progress of the flight but not appearing in the published navigation procedures.

This onboard flight management system displays on the navigation screen the plots of the flight plan parts corresponding to the navigation procedures whose names are displayed on the MCD console during the introduction by the crew of the aircraft, by means of the MCD console, of the elements allowing the FMS flight management computer to plot a flight plan. This facilitates the task of the crew when choosing navigation procedure since the plot of the flight plan part corresponding to a navigation procedure is much more expressive than the name of the procedure.

The invention discloses a navigation path framework applicable to reduction of redundant navigation. The navigation path framework comprises a data pre-processing module, a path division module and a path conclusion module, wherein the data pre-processing module is connected with the path division module; the path division module is connected with the path conclusion module; the data pre-processing module is used for extracting user knowledge; the path division module is used for finding an optimal path dividing; the path conclusion module is used for generating individualized path navigation on a familiar path of a user; the data pre-processing module comprises a matching and calibration module, a landmark extracting module and a user knowledge measuring module; the matching and calibration module and the landmark extracting module are connected with the user knowledge measuring module respectively; the user knowledge measuring module is connected with the path division module. Based on the framework disclosed by the invention, a navigation application program is developed and a navigation instruction can be simplified, so that the development cost of the navigation application program is reduced, requirements on resources of navigation application are reduced and navigation information is more easily known by the user.

A display is divided into two regions, a standard region and an enlarged region with a user positioned is at an angle relative to the display. The standard region is formed on a side nearer the user and the enlarged region is formed on a side farther from the user. When the navigation device displays guidance information, information displayed in the standard region is displayed on a standard scale, while information displayed in the enlarged region is displayed enlarged relative to the standard scale. Since the display on the side farther from the user position is thus enlarged, the user can more easily view that guidance information.

A navigation apparatus defines the route of movement from the current location to the destination on the basis of map information. It acquires road information relating to characteristics of the current road on which the vehicle is running and those of each of the branch roads extending from the fork located ahead of the current road by way of road information acquiring section 21. The acquired road information is collated with the requirement information stored in requirement information storage section 22 and the number of points correlated with the requirement that is met or not met are added or subtracted, whichever appropriate, to determine the total number of points by the agreement judging section 23. If the total number of points is greater than a threshold value, the navigation apparatus judges that the vehicle may not divert from the route of movement and restricts or suppresses guidance for driving the vehicle provided by guidance notification section 18. If, on the other hand, the total number of points is smaller than the threshold value, the navigation apparatus judges that the vehicle may divert from the route of movement and allows the guidance notification section 18 to provide guidance.

Navigation apparatus, methods, and programs merge and correct a plurality of types of past traffic information. The apparatus, methods, and programs may store a plurality of types of past traffic information, each type of past traffic information having a priority and may merge the stored past traffic information in accordance the priorities. The apparatus, methods, and programs may detect adjacency relationships among the plurality of links; and, if a detected link number indicates that the corresponding link is not adjacent to adjacent links, replaces the detected link number for the link, the replaced link number indicating that the link is adjacent to the adjacent links.

In a navigation-related processing, when it is necessary to access a navigation data area 121 in a hard disk device, an access data amount determining portion 211 determines whether the navigation-related processing includes access by a predetermined amount or more of data. When the determination result is affirmative, an access restriction instructing portion 212 sends a hard disk access restricting instruction to a disk recording processing portion 221. In a state where the access of the disk recording processing portion 221 to an additional-function data area 122 of the hard disk is restricted, a navigation processing section 210 accesses the navigation data area 121. As a result, even when a navigation-related processing and a specific additional function-related process other than a navigation function are concurrently performed, it is possible to provide navigation information well.