JPH11142174A - Navigation system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a navigation system which not only displays and teaches the route to a destination, but automatically calls facilities at the destination thereby making confirmation and makes a contact beforehand and improves convenience of use. SOLUTION: The navigation system is constituted so that it can not only display and teach the routes to a destination, but stores additional information such as telephone number related to the destination, Internet homepage addresses, etc., in a memory 31 beforehand, accesses a telephone number or an Internet homepage address corresponding to the designated destination and inquires necessary information (regular holidays, business hours, charges, etc.).

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a navigation system, and more particularly to a navigation system capable of acquiring information on various destinations.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A navigation system includes a plurality of GPs.
A system that receives GPS information from the S satellite via an antenna, acquires the current position of the user, displays a road route (route) from the current position to the destination on a screen, and visually provides information to the user. At present, it has been widely adopted as a car navigation system mounted on a car.

In a conventional navigation system, destination information is designated (input) to search for a road route from a current position to the destination, and the road information is displayed on a screen.

[0004]

In the above-described conventional navigation system, the route road from the current position to the destination is displayed on the screen, so that the destination can be reached without fail. If the destination is a business establishment (for example, a leisure land, an amusement spot, or a store), the following problem may occur.

[0005] In other words, even if the destination can be safely arrived in this way, if the destination is closed on regular holidays and outside business hours, wasted time is spent until arrival at the destination. If your destination is far away, you could waste a whole day.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to not only display and teach a road route to a destination, but also, if necessary, automatically call a destination facility before departure to confirm necessary items in advance. It is an object of the present invention to provide a navigation system with improved convenience, which enables the driver to start a thorough system by contacting the user.

[0007]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, a navigation system according to the present invention specifies a destination position, searches for a road route from a current position to the destination, and displays the road information on a screen. In the navigation system displayed above, telephone number information relating to a building on a map is stored in a memory in advance, and a telephone number corresponding to the designated building (destination) is read from the memory and transmitted. It comprises means.

A navigation system according to another aspect of the present invention provides a navigation system that specifies a destination position, searches for a road route from a current position to the destination, and displays the road information on a screen. An Internet homepage address relating to a business establishment on a map is stored in a memory in advance, and an access means for accessing the Internet homepage address corresponding to the designated destination (business establishment) is provided.

Here, after the call from the transmitting means is completed or after the access by the access means is completed, the process shifts to a normal route search operation. In addition, when the designated destination specifies the building itself,
Make a call to the telephone number corresponding to the building located on the latitude and longitude obtained from the map information or execute access to the Internet homepage address.If the specified destination is other than a building, obtain A list of the top several buildings located near the specified latitude and longitude is displayed on the display as a candidate list, and a call to the telephone number corresponding to the destination selected by the user from the list or an Internet homepage address When the specified destination is other than a building, and the corresponding telephone number or Internet home address does not exist in the memory, the information can be displayed or voice-guided.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment of a navigation system according to the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a basic configuration of an embodiment of a navigation system according to the present invention. 2 to 4 are views showing examples of screens displayed on the display 2 for explaining the operation of the present invention.

In the navigation system according to the present embodiment, basically, a GPS antenna 1 for receiving a radio wave from a GPS satellite 100, map information, destination information, and the like are displayed as screen information. It comprises a display 2, a navigation processing unit 3, and a mobile phone 4 such as a mobile phone. The mobile phone 4 communicates with the public base station 5 by wireless communication,
Data transfer is performed.

The navigation processing section 3 has a memory 31 for storing various information necessary for navigation, and a CPU 32 for performing an operation based on navigation software for executing processing for the information. Memory 31
Is not only the conventional map information but also the so-called NTT
The information stored in the town page issued by is also stored. The memory 31 can further store special information such as business hours and business contents. If a DVD-ROM or a higher-capacity storage medium is used as the memory 31, the storage capacity becomes larger than that of the currently used CD-RO.
Since about 7 times or more of capacity can be secured as compared with M, more sophisticated use is possible.

Now, the GPS received by the GPS antenna 1
CPU 32 of navigation processing unit 3 based on the signal
Calculates the vehicle position and displays the vehicle position mark on the display 2 together with the map information read from the memory 31.

The operation of this embodiment will be described below. First, a destination (here, a building of a non-ordinary home) is specified on a display screen. The specified destination information is CP
The telephone number of the designated destination is input to U32 and is referred to various information stored in the memory 31, and is displayed on the display 2. The user visually checks the telephone number and the name of the destination displayed on the display 2 and makes a call to the telephone number. This operation can be automatically performed by touching or pressing the transmission button on the operation panel of the navigation system when the telephone is built in. When using an external or mobile phone, dial the phone number. Inquiry about the fixed holiday, business hours, fee, etc. is made to the destination party who has dialed and answered in this manner.

As described above, in order to obtain various information such as regular holidays and business hours from the above-mentioned destination, a telephone number may be searched and a telephone call may be made to obtain information directly from the other party. An Internet homepage address may be used instead of a telephone number with a built-in function.

More specifically, the memory 31 stores map information for navigation and town page information (phone books of general companies and shops) as a database using latitude and longitude as keys. The designation and input of the destination may be performed by touching the display screen of the display 2 and operating the operation panel, or by operating the keyboard of the personal computer, as described above.

As shown in FIG. 2A, when the designated destination points to the building itself, the name of the building located on the latitude and longitude acquired by the memory 31 is obtained from the map information. , From the database of town page information, its name (in some cases, also uses latitude and longitude information)
Get a phone number that matches. Here, when there are a plurality of the same names, the object is specified from the latitude and longitude information.

When the telephone number of the destination and the Internet homepage address are obtained in this way, FIG.
As shown in (B), the name, telephone number and Internet homepage address are displayed on the display 2,
A display is made to select one of "call and route search" and "route search only".

As shown in FIG. 3A, when the designated destination is other than a building (an open space on a road, etc.), the destination exists at a location close to the latitude and longitude obtained as described above. Of the top few buildings or the tens to hundreds of meters from the latitude and longitude (details of the display screen, the area radius changes depending on the wide area level),
As shown in FIG. 3 (B), all are displayed on the display 2 in the form of a candidate list. The user selects one of them.

Further, as shown in FIG. 4 (A), the designated destination is other than a building, and there is a building in the vicinity.
Alternatively, if the name of the building, the telephone number, and the Internet home address do not exist in the database, as shown in FIG. Please do "on the screen.

In the above description, when "call and route search" is selected, automatic transmission or access operation is started to the obtained telephone number or Internet home address to obtain necessary information from the other party. If possible, hang up the phone and continue searching for the route if it is okay. Then, if it is found that the regular holiday is outside the business hours, the operation returns to the input operation of another destination. "Route search only"
When is selected, a normal route search operation is performed.

[0022]

As described above, the navigation system according to the present invention displays a road route to a destination,
In addition to teaching, store the destination information such as telephone number information and Internet homepage address in the memory in addition to the map information, and access the telephone number and Internet homepage address corresponding to the designated destination to make regular holidays , Business hours, rates, etc. Therefore, necessary information can be acquired before arriving at the destination, and convenience and reliability are remarkably improved.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a basic configuration of an embodiment of a navigation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on a display 2 for explaining the operation of the embodiment, and is a diagram showing an example in a case where a designated destination points to a building itself.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on a display 2 for explaining an operation of the embodiment, and is a diagram showing an example in a case where a designated destination is other than a building.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display 2 for explaining the operation of the present embodiment, in a case where the designated destination is other than a building and there is no information corresponding to the database in the memory; It is a figure showing an example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 GPS antenna 2 Display 3 Navigation processing part 4 Mobile telephone 5 Public base station 21 Transmission / reception speaker 31 Memory 32 CPU 100 GPS satellite

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[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] December 11, 1997

[Procedure amendment 1]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0020

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

Further, as shown in FIG. 4A, the designated destination is other than a building, and there is no building nearby, or the name, telephone number, and Internet home address of the building exist in the database. Otherwise, as shown in FIG. 4B, a message such as "Please specify another location as a search location because the information of this location is not in the database" is displayed on the screen.

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Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A navigation system for searching for a road route from a current position to a destination by designating destination information and displaying the road information on a screen. Is stored in a memory, and transmitting means for reading out and transmitting a telephone number corresponding to the designated destination from the memory is provided. 2. A navigation system for searching for a road route from a current position to a destination by designating destination information and displaying the road information on a screen. A navigation system having information stored in a memory and having access means for accessing an Internet homepage address corresponding to the designated destination. 3. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein a normal route search operation is performed after a call by the calling means is terminated or after the access by the access means is terminated. 4. When the designated destination designates a building itself, a call to a telephone number corresponding to the building located on the latitude and longitude obtained from the map information or an Internet homepage address. The navigation system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the navigation system performs an access. 5. When the specified destination is other than a building, the top several buildings among the buildings existing near the acquired latitude and longitude are displayed on a display as a candidate list, The navigation system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein a call is made to a telephone number corresponding to a destination selected by the user from among them, or an Internet homepage address is accessed. 6. If the designated destination is other than a building and the corresponding telephone number or Internet home address does not exist in the memory, a message to that effect is displayed or voice-guided. Navigation system. 7. The navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the system is a car navigation system mounted on a car or mounted on a car.