公开(公告)号：US06263276B1

公开(公告)日：2001-07-17

申请号：US09657513

申请日：2000-09-07

申请人： Shoji Yokoyama ,  Tomoki Kubota ,  Yasuo Ito ,  Naoki Gorai ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Hideaki Morita ,  Satoshi Kitano ,  Hiroki Ishikawa

发明人： Shoji Yokoyama ,  Tomoki Kubota ,  Yasuo Ito ,  Naoki Gorai ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Hideaki Morita ,  Satoshi Kitano ,  Hiroki Ishikawa

IPC分类号： G06G778

CPC分类号： G08G1/096811 ,  G01C21/26 ,  G08G1/096844 ,  G08G1/096872 ,  G08G1/096888

摘要： Disclosed is a communicatory navigation system including an information center (150), at least one navigation unit (100) each mounted on a vehicle and communication means for allowing bi-directional data communication between the information center and the navigation unit. Data transmission from the navigation unit to the information center is made during a period of communication that begins when the navigation unit become communicable with the information center and ends when the bi-directional data communication therebetween is disconnected. The navigation unit is provided with a drive route history memory area (131) and an instrument operation history memory area (132), and data in these memory areas are transmitted to the information center, together with the vehicle current position data and the destination position data. The information center determines a recommended drive route from the current position to the destination, not only with reference to its own database (158) but also taking into consideration the history data. For example, if it is determined that there is a traffic accident or heavy traffic jam in some route, a bypass route is determined and transmitted back to the navigation unit. When the previous drive route indicated by data in area (131) is not found in the database (158), it can be recognized as a newly constructed road for inclusion in the database.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种通信导航系统，包括信息中心（150），安装在车辆上的至少一个导航单元（100）和用于允许信息中心和导航单元之间的双向数据通信的通信装置。 从导航单元到信息中心的数据传输是在导航单元与信息中心通信时开始的通信期间进行的，并且当它们之间的双向数据通信断开时结束。 导航单元设置有驱动路线历史记录区域（131）和仪器操作历史存储区域（132），并且将这些存储区域中的数据与车辆当前位置数据和目的地位置一起发送到信息中心 数据。 信息中心确定从当前位置到目的地的推荐驱动路线，不仅参照其自己的数据库（158），还考虑到历史数据。 例如，如果确定在某些路由中存在交通事故或大量交通堵塞，则确定旁路路由并将其发送回导航单元。 当在数据库（158）中没有找到由区域（131）中的数据指示的先前的驱动路线时，可以将其识别为用于包含在数据库中的新建道路。

公开(公告)号：US06202024B1

公开(公告)日：2001-03-13

申请号：US09271166

申请日：1999-03-18

申请人： Shoji Yokoyama ,  Tomoki Kubota ,  Yasuo Ito ,  Naoki Gorai ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Hideaki Morita ,  Satoshi Kitano ,  Hiroki Ishikawa

发明人： Shoji Yokoyama ,  Tomoki Kubota ,  Yasuo Ito ,  Naoki Gorai ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Hideaki Morita ,  Satoshi Kitano ,  Hiroki Ishikawa

IPC分类号： G06G778

CPC分类号： G08G1/096811 ,  G01C21/26 ,  G08G1/096844 ,  G08G1/096872 ,  G08G1/096888

摘要： Disclosed is a communicatory navigation system including an information center (150), at least one navigation unit (100) each mounted on a vehicle and communication means for allowing bi-directional data communication between the information center and the navigation unit. Data transmission from the navigation unit to the information center is made during a period of communication that begins when the navigation unit become communicatable with the information center and ends when the bi-directional data communication therebetween is disconnected. The navigation unit is provided with a drive route history memory area (131) and an instrument operation history memory area (132), and data in these memory areas are transmitted to the information center, together with the vehicle current position data and the destination position data. The information center determines a recommended drive route from the current position to the destination, not only with reference to its own database (158) but also taking into consideration the history data. For example, if it is determined that there is a traffic accident or heavy traffic jam in some route, a bypass route is determined and transmitted back to the navigation unit. When the previous drive route indicated by data in area (131) is not found in the database (158), it can be recognized as a newly constructed road for inclusion in the database.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种通信导航系统，包括信息中心（150），安装在车辆上的至少一个导航单元（100）和用于允许信息中心和导航单元之间的双向数据通信的通信装置。 从导航单元到信息中心的数据传输是在导航单元与信息中心通信时开始的通信期间进行的，并且当它们之间的双向数据通信断开时结束。 导航单元设置有驱动路线历史记录区域（131）和仪器操作历史存储区域（132），并且将这些存储区域中的数据与车辆当前位置数据和目的地位置一起发送到信息中心 数据。 信息中心确定从当前位置到目的地的推荐驱动路线，不仅参照其自己的数据库（158），还考虑到历史数据。 例如，如果确定在某些路由中存在交通事故或大量交通堵塞，则确定旁路路由并将其发送回导航单元。 当在数据库（158）中没有找到由区域（131）中的数据指示的先前的驱动路线时，可以将其识别为用于包含在数据库中的新建道路。

公开(公告)号：US06542816B1

公开(公告)日：2003-04-01

申请号：US09714868

申请日：2000-11-17

申请人： Yasuo Ito ,  Naoki Gorai ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Satoshi Kitano ,  Hiroyuki Yamakawa

发明人： Yasuo Ito ,  Naoki Gorai ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Satoshi Kitano ,  Hiroyuki Yamakawa

IPC分类号： G08G1123

CPC分类号： G01C21/32 ,  G01C21/3492 ,  G01C21/3629

摘要： A communication navigation system, wherein a navigation apparatus requests a recommended route guidance data to a information center and guides a user of the navigation apparatus to a destination by using the recommended route guidance data received from the information center. In this present invention, the navigation apparatus transmits version data of road data held in the navigation apparatus at the request to the information center. The information center prepares a guidance data of recommended route using latest road data held in the information center, and transmits the data to the navigation apparatus. When the information center transmits the guidance data, the information center selects the type of data of the road links along the recommended route, in the guidance data, by comparing the version data received from the navigation apparatus and the version data of each road link along the recommended route. If each data of road links along the recommended route is considered to be contained in the road data held in the navigation apparatus, the information center transmits the only data which enable to specify the road link from the road data held in the navigation apparatus. On the hand, if each data of road links is considered not to be contained in the road data held in the navigation apparatus, the information center transmits whole data of the road link. Therefore, the navigation apparatus can generate the route guidance data by extracting road link data, from its own road data, corresponding to the road link specified by transmitted data and by reconstructing road link data using transmitted data.

摘要翻译： 一种通信导航系统，其中导航装置向信息中心请求推荐的路线引导数据，并通过使用从信息中心接收到的推荐路线引导数据将导航装置的用户引导到目的地。在本发明中，导航 装置根据请求向信息中心发送保存在导航装置中的道路数据的版本数据。 信息中心使用信息中心中保存的最新道路数据准备推荐路线的指导数据，并将数据发送到导航装置。 当信息中心发送指导数据时，信息中心通过比较从导航装置接收的版本数据和每个道路链路的版本数据沿着推荐路线选择引导数据中的道路链路的数据类型 推荐路线。 如果沿着推荐路线的道路连接的每个数据被认为包含在导航装置中保存的道路数据中，则信息中心从保存在导航装置中的道路数据中发送能够指定道路链接的唯一数据。 另外，如果道路连接的数据被认为不包含在导航装置所保持的道路数据中，则信息中心发送道路链路的全部数据。 因此，导航装置可以通过从其自己的道路数据中提取对应于由发送数据指定的道路链路的道路数据，并且使用发送的数据重建道路链路数据，来生成路线引导数据。

公开(公告)号：US06427117B1

公开(公告)日：2002-07-30

申请号：US09551403

申请日：2000-04-17

申请人： Yasuo Ito ,  Naoki Gorai ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Satoshi Kitano ,  Hiroyuki Yamakawa

发明人： Yasuo Ito ,  Naoki Gorai ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Satoshi Kitano ,  Hiroyuki Yamakawa

IPC分类号： G06G778

CPC分类号： G01C21/3492 ,  G01C21/3608 ,  G01C21/3629 ,  G01C21/3644 ,  G01C21/3679

摘要： A navigation system includes a navigation center and at least one moving body. The navigation center of the navigation system comprises memory means for storing navigation information; updating means for constantly updating the navigation information stored in the memory means; route searching means for setting a route from a current position of the moving body to a destination on the basis of the newest navigation information updated by the updating means; dividing means for dividing the searched route into at least two portions; extracting means for extracting navigation data concerning at least a head portion of the divided route from the memory means; transmitting means for transmitting to the moving body the extracted navigation data; and control means. After transmitting the navigation data for the head portion to the moving body and before transmitting navigation data for a remaining route, the control means controls each of the route searching means, the dividing means, the extracting means and the transmitting means so that each means performs the respective processes. This arrangement enables a user of the moving body to be provided with route guidance which is conducted using the navigation data formed based on the newest navigation information that reflects various road conditions.

摘要翻译： 导航系统包括导航中心和至少一个移动体。 导航系统的导航中心包括用于存储导航信息的存储装置; 更新装置，用于不断更新存储在存储装置中的导航信息; 路线搜索装置，用于基于由更新装置更新的最新导航信息，设置从移动体的当前位置到目的地的路线; 划分装置，用于将搜索到的路线划分成至少两个部分; 提取装置，用于从存储装置中提取与划分的路线的至少头部有关的导航数据; 发送装置，用于向所述移动体发送所提取的导航数据; 和控制装置。 在将头部的导航数据发送到移动体之后，并且在发送用于剩余路线的导航数据之前，控制装置控制每个路线搜索装置，分割装置，提取装置和发送装置，使得每个装置执行 各自的过程。 通过这种布置，能够使移动体的使用者能够使用基于反映各种道路状况的最新导航信息而形成的导航数据进行路线引导。

公开(公告)号：US06249740B1

公开(公告)日：2001-06-19

申请号：US09234479

申请日：1999-01-21

申请人： Yasuo Ito ,  Naoki Gorai ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Satoshi Kitano

发明人： Yasuo Ito ,  Naoki Gorai ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Satoshi Kitano

IPC分类号： G01C2100

CPC分类号： G08G1/096811 ,  G01C21/34 ,  G06Q10/02 ,  G06Q10/047 ,  G08G1/096822 ,  G08G1/096861 ,  G08G1/096866 ,  G08G1/096872

摘要： A commucations navigation system in which data is transmitted and received between a navigation base apparatus provided at a navigation base and a vehicle navigation apparatus provided in a vehicle using communication. The vehicle navigation apparatus is adapted to transmit at least data concerning the current position of the vehicle and the destination thereof to the navigation base apparatus, and the navigation base apparatus stores navigation data in its data base and is adapted to determine a recommended route based on the transmitted data of the current position of the vehicle and the destination thereof and then extract data of the recommended route from the navigation data stored in the data base and transmit the extracted data to the navigation apparatus. The navigation base apparatus is adapted to be able to extract detailed navigation data only for a surrounding areas of a specified point on the recommended route from the navigation data stored in the data base and then transmit the detailed navigation data to the navigation apparatus. The specified point includes a departure point, a destination and a course-change point which are located on the recommended route. During traveling other places on the recommended route such as intermediate sections, the navigation apparatus transmits simple navigation data such as a simple map to the vehicle, thereby enabling to reduce an amount of data to be transmitted from the navigation base apparatus to the vehicle navigation apparatus.

摘要翻译： 一种通信导航系统，其中在设置在导航台的导航基站装置和使用通信的车辆中提供的车辆导航装置之间发送和接收数据。 车辆导航装置至少将与车辆的当前位置及其目的地有关的数据发送到导航基站装置，并且导航基站装置将导航数据存储在其数据库中，并且适于基于 车辆的当前位置和目的地的发送数据，然后从存储在数据库中的导航数据中提取推荐路线的数据，并将提取的数据发送到导航装置。 导航装置适于仅从存储在数据库中的导航数据提取对推荐路线上的指定点的周围区域的详细导航数据，然后将详细的导航数据发送到导航装置。 指定点包括位于推荐路线上的出发点，目的地和路线改变点。 在诸如中间部分的推荐路线行驶的其它地方，导航装置将诸如简单地图的简单导航数据发送到车辆，从而能够将从导航基站装置发送的数据量减少到车辆导航装置 。

公开(公告)号：US06484093B1

公开(公告)日：2002-11-19

申请号：US09714601

申请日：2000-11-17

申请人： Yasuo Ito ,  Naoki Gorai ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Satoshi Kitano ,  Hiroyuki Yamakawa

发明人： Yasuo Ito ,  Naoki Gorai ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Satoshi Kitano ,  Hiroyuki Yamakawa

IPC分类号： G01C2134

CPC分类号： G01C21/34

摘要： A communication route guidance system provides exchange of data between an information center and each of a plurality of mobile units such as vehicles. The information center has the latest road data and searches it to prepare recommended route guidance data in response to a request from the mobile unit. The reccommended route guidance data is divided into a plurality of data segments, each usable as an independent guidance instruction in the mobile unit. The mobile unit has stored therein road data similar to the road data in the information center and determines if data communication with the information center is available. In a case where the mobile unit can not communicate with the information center, the mobile unit prepares route guidance based on the road data stored in the mobile unit. It thereby becomes possible to guide the user even in the case that the mobile unit can not communicate with the information center. Even in a case where a communication link is disrupted during transmission of route guidance data to the mobile unit, the mobile unit can effectively prepare whole route guidance data in combination with already-received route guidance data and additionally prepared route guidance data by reference to the road data stored in the mobile unit because the already received route guidance data is structured to be usable independently.

摘要翻译： 通信路线引导系统提供信息中心与诸如车辆的多个移动单元中的每一个之间的数据交换。 信息中心具有最新的道路数据，并根据移动单元的请求进行搜索，以准备推荐的路线指导数据。 推荐路线引导数据被划分为多个数据段，每个数据段可用作移动单元中的独立指导指令。 移动单元存储与信息中心中的道路数据类似的道路数据，并且确定与信息中心的数据通信是否可用。 在移动单元不能与信息中心通信的情况下，移动单元基于存储在移动单元中的道路数据准备路线引导。 由此即使在移动单元不能与信息中心通信的情况下也能够引导用户。 即使在将路线引导数据发送到移动单元时通信链路中断的情况下，移动单元也可以结合已经接收到的路线引导数据和附加准备的路线引导数据，有效地准备整个路线引导数据，参考 由于已经接收到的路线引导数据被构造为能够独立使用，存储在移动单元中的道路数据。

公开(公告)号：US06314369B1

公开(公告)日：2001-11-06

申请号：US09345479

申请日：1999-07-01

申请人： Yasuo Ito ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Naoki Gorai ,  Satoshi Kitano

发明人： Yasuo Ito ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Naoki Gorai ,  Satoshi Kitano

IPC分类号： G01C2100

CPC分类号： G08G1/096811 ,  G01C21/34 ,  G08G1/096844 ,  G08G1/096861 ,  G08G1/096866 ,  G08G1/096872

摘要： In a communications navigation system, data is transmitted and received between a navigation base apparatus provided at a navigation base and each of a plurality of navigation apparatuses provided in moving bodies such as vehicles using communication. A determining section of the navigation base apparatus determines untraveled route portion by comparing user's information stored in a user information storage with information of a recommended route provided by a route search section. The navigation base apparatus extracts necessary route/guidance information for untraveled route portion determined by the determining section from route/guidance data stored in a database, and then transmits the extracted route/guidance data to the navigation apparatus identified by the identification information. The route/guidance information may be transmitted to the navigation apparatus in the form of segmented data. In this way, it becomes possible for the navigation apparatus to extract only the route/guidance information needed by the user from the route/guidance data stored in the database.

摘要翻译： 在通信导航系统中，在设置在导航台的导航基台装置和设置在诸如使用通信的车辆的移动体中的多个导航装置中的每一个之间发送和接收数据。 导航基站装置的确定部分通过将存储在用户信息存储器中的用户信息与由路由搜索部分提供的推荐路由的信息进行比较，来确定未经浏览的路由部分。 导航基站装置从存储在数据库中的路径/指导数据中提取由确定部分确定的未行驶路线部分的必要路线/引导信息，然后将所提取的路线/引导数据发送到由识别信息识别的导航装置。 路线/引导信息可以以分段数据的形式发送到导航装置。 以这种方式，导航装置可以从存储在数据库中的路线/指导数据中仅提取用户所需的路线/指导信息。

公开(公告)号：US06282492B1

公开(公告)日：2001-08-28

申请号：US09695255

申请日：2000-10-25

申请人： Naoki Gorai ,  Hiroyuki Yamakawa ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Satoshi Kitano ,  Yasuo Ito

发明人： Naoki Gorai ,  Hiroyuki Yamakawa ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Satoshi Kitano ,  Yasuo Ito

IPC分类号： G01C2200

CPC分类号： G01C21/32 ,  G01C21/34

摘要： A navigation system includes a navigation center and a plurality of navigation apparatuses each of which has a data storage that stores various information. In this navigation system, data (coordinate data of each of traveling intersections) concerning a recommended route is transmitted from the navigation center to the navigation apparatus, and then route guidance is carried out in the navigation apparatus using the data received from the navigation center. In the case where the navigation apparatus has intersection data for an intersection specified by the data received from the navigation center, the navigation apparatus extracts the intersection data for the intersection from the data storage. Further, in the case where the navigation center does not have intersection data for an intersection specified by the data received from the navigation center, the navigation apparatus establishes the intersection as a newly-built intersection on the recommended route. Then, the navigation apparatus produces route guidance data (which is used for providing route guidance to a user) using the extracted intersection data, and/or intersection data concerning the established newly-built intersection in addition to the information in the data storage.

摘要翻译： 导航系统包括导航中心和多个导航装置，每个导航装置具有存储各种信息的数据存储器。 在该导航系统中，从导航中心向导航装置发送与推荐路线相关的数据（每个行驶路口的坐标数据），然后使用从导航中心接收的数据在导航装置中进行路线引导。 在导航装置具有从由导航中心接收到的数据指定的交点的交点数据的情况下，导航装置从数据存储器提取交叉路口的交叉路口数据。 此外，在导航中心没有从由导航中心接收到的数据指定的交叉路口的交叉路口数据的情况下，导航装置在推荐路线上建立交叉路口作为新建路口。 然后，除了数据存储中的信息之外，导航装置使用提取的交叉路口数据和/或与建立的新建的交叉路口相关的交叉路口数据生成路线引导数据（用于向用户提供路线引导）。

公开(公告)号：US07310602B2

公开(公告)日：2007-12-18

申请号：US10949810

申请日：2004-09-27

申请人： Toshio Takaichi ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Yasuo Ito ,  Jianwu Zeng ,  Ryuya Muramatsu

发明人： Toshio Takaichi ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Yasuo Ito ,  Jianwu Zeng ,  Ryuya Muramatsu

IPC分类号： G10L15/00 ,  G10L15/04

CPC分类号： G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/08 ,  G10L2015/088

摘要： In this navigation apparatus, when speech recognition of inputted speech is carried out, keywords included in the content of the recognized speech are searched from a dictionary DB, and then these words are displayed as keywords of a POI search. When a correction of a keyword is required by the user, because most errors occur in the first phonetic symbol of the misrecognized word, a search of words each having phonetic symbols in which the first phonetic symbol of the misrecognized word is changed from the phonetic symbols of the word to be corrected (i.e., a search of words having one different first phonetic symbol) is carried out to present candidates for correction. In this navigation apparatus, because the displayed candidates for correction are limited to words having a different first phonetic symbol which has a high possibility of being the cause of misrecognition, the user can correct the misrecognized keyword by a simple operation. Further, it is possible to reduce the process burden as compared to the conventional misrecognition correction processes.

摘要翻译： 在该导航装置中，当进行输入语音的语音识别时，从词典DB中搜索包含在识别语音的内容中的关键字，然后将这些词作为POI搜索​​的关键字显示。 当用户需要对关键字进行校正时，由于大多数错误发生在错误识别的单词的第一个语音符号中，所以搜索每个具有语音符号的单词，其中错误识别的单词的第一语音符号从语音符号 （即，搜索具有一个不同的第一语音符号的单词）以呈现用于校正的候选者。 在该导航装置中，由于所显示的校正候选被限制为具有作为误识别的原因的高可能性的具有不同的第一语音符号的单词，所以用户可以通过简单的操作来纠正误识别的关键字。 此外，与传统的误识别校正处理相比，可以减少处理负担。

公开(公告)号：US20060074661A1

公开(公告)日：2006-04-06

申请号：US10949810

申请日：2004-09-27

申请人： Toshio Takaichi ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Yasuo Ito ,  Jianwu Zeng ,  Ryuya Muramatsu

发明人： Toshio Takaichi ,  Takashi Sugawara ,  Yasuo Ito ,  Jianwu Zeng ,  Ryuya Muramatsu

IPC分类号： G10L15/04

CPC分类号： G10L15/22 ,  G10L15/08 ,  G10L2015/088

摘要： In this navigation apparatus, when speech recognition of inputted speech is carried out, keywords included in the content of the recognized speech are searched from a dictionary DB, and then these words are displayed as keywords of a POI search. When a correction of a keyword is required by the user, because most errors occur in the first phonetic symbol of the misrecognized word, a search of words each having phonetic symbols in which the first phonetic symbol of the misrecognized word is changed from the phonetic symbols of the word to be corrected (i.e., a search of words having one different first phonetic symbol) is carried out to present candidates for correction. In this navigation apparatus, because the displayed candidates for correction are limited to words having a different first phonetic symbol which has a high possibility of being the cause of misrecognition, the user can correct the misrecognized keyword by a simple operation. Further, it is possible to reduce the process burden as compared to the conventional misrecognition correction processes.

摘要翻译： 在该导航装置中，当进行输入语音的语音识别时，从词典DB中搜索包含在识别语音的内容中的关键字，然后将这些词作为POI搜索​​的关键字显示。 当用户需要对关键字进行校正时，由于大多数错误发生在错误识别的单词的第一个语音符号中，所以搜索每个具有语音符号的单词，其中错误识别的单词的第一语音符号从语音符号 （即，搜索具有一个不同的第一语音符号的单词）以呈现用于校正的候选者。 在该导航装置中，由于所显示的校正候选被限制为具有作为误识别的原因的高可能性的具有不同的第一语音符号的单词，所以用户可以通过简单的操作来纠正误识别的关键字。 此外，与传统的误识别校正处理相比，可以减少处理负担。