Marine Navigation Data Region Export
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of marine navigation systems face challenges in filtering out irrelevant past navigation points, especially when the user's locale is small, requiring them to sift through a large number of points to find relevant data.
Innovation Solution
A multi-function display system that allows users to select and export navigation data points within a defined geographical region, using a computer-readable medium with executable instructions to receive user selections of points and regions, and process these selections to provide relevant navigation data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If users store a large number of past navigation points for marine activities, then the memory capacity is fully utilized and more data is available, but the relevance of data to the user's current locale decreases and filtering becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the large dataset of navigation points by spatial location, organizing them into geographically distributed clusters. The system divides the navigation history into multiple spatial segments that can be independently queried and filtered, allowing users to access only the relevant segment corresponding to their current locale rather than searching through all stored points.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts and highlights the most relevant navigation points based on their proximity to the user's current location. By identifying and separating the relevant subset of data from the complete dataset, the system presents only the extracted relevant information to the user, eliminating the need to manually filter through irrelevant points.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users store navigation points from various locations, then the comprehensiveness of navigation data is improved, but the time required to filter and find relevant points increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary spatial organization and indexing of navigation points during the data storage phase. By pre-processing the navigation data into spatially organized structures before the user needs to query it, the system eliminates the need for time-consuming filtering operations when users later access their navigation history.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical filtering process with an automated computational system. Instead of requiring users to manually examine and filter through navigation points, the system automatically computes relevance based on spatial relationships and presents filtered results, substituting user effort with automated processing.
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AI summary
Described herein are implementations of various technologies for an apparatus and method for providing navigation data. In one implementation, a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon a plurality of computer-executable instructions. When the plurality of computer-executable instructions are executed by a computer, the plurality of executable instructions causes the computer to receive a user selection of a plurality of points of navigation data and receive a user selection of a geographical region. The computer can select at least a portion of the plurality of the points of the navigation data that are in the geographical region.