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Data Processing: Vehicles, Navigation, And Relative Location > Navigation > Employing Position Determining Equipment > For Use In A Map Data Base System For Use In A Map Data Base SystemFor Use In A Map Data Base System patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.12/07/06 - 20060276962 - Moving history conversion apparatus and moving history conversion method To provide a moving history conversion apparatus which makes moving history accumulated in an apparatus to be available in other different-type apparatuses. The moving history conversion apparatus includes: the first map information accumulation unit which accumulates first map information which represents a map using a series of first-type IDs for ... 12/07/06 - 20060276961 - Navigation system with function of one-touch map matching correction and method thereof A navigation system with a function of one-touch map matching correction, and a method thereof. The navigation system includes a GPS module for receiving each position signal, and measuring self position and driving direction; a map database for storing map data; a storage unit for storing a candidate designation index, ... 11/30/06 - 20060271282 - Navigation system, data server, traveling route establishing method and information proving method A navigation system, portable information processing device and its control program, data server, information processing server, navigation method, traveling route establishing method, information providing method, and area information providing method are disclosed having a portable terminal (10,54,210) to read out code data, indicative of area information of a destination and ... 11/30/06 - 20060271281 - Geographic information knowledge systems Systems and methods are described for managing geographically referenced data (GRD). The systems and methods are configured to receive a search request that includes a defined search area. An extended map is provided based on the search request. The extended map includes geographic areas within the defined search area and ... 11/30/06 - 20060271280 - Using boundaries associated with a map view for business location searching A system aggregates entity location information from multiple documents distributed among multiple locations in a network. The system searches the entity location information to identify a first set of entities located within the entirety of a first geographic region selected by a user. The system provides a first digital map ... 11/16/06 - 20060259236 - Geographic database including data indicating wireless coverage and method and system for use thereof Wireless coverage data are associated with a geographic database that contains data that represent a road network in a geographic region. The wireless coverage data indicate areas within the geographic region in which navigation-related services or data from a navigation services provider are available wirelessly, or conversely, areas within the ... 11/16/06 - 20060259235 - Navigation system, route search method, and storage medium There are provided a navigation system, a route search method and a storage medium which are easily capable of setting a destination even if a telephone number, which is not contained in a storage device, is entered. A route search processing unit, in the case where, for example, positions corresponding ... 11/02/06 - 20060247850 - Data-driven traffic views with keyroute status A computer-implemented method is provided for displaying on a graphical map traffic flow data representing traffic conditions on a road system. The graphical map includes one or more keyroutes, each keyroute being defined by one or more contiguous road segments. Congestion status of the one or more keyroutes are displayed ... 10/26/06 - 20060241861 - Map display device and navigation system therewith When an area corresponding to area information is determined to use a default font, an ECU displays characters by using the default font stored in a ROM. When an area corresponding to area information is determined to not use a default font, the ECU reads out an exclusive font corresponding ... 10/26/06 - 20060241860 - Virtual earth mapping Provided is a single repository for capturing, connecting, sharing, and visualizing information based on a geographic location, for example. Provided is a schema, repository, index, and APIs for any information, place, entity, attribute, service or person that can be referenced geographically. A system to provide real time image data includes ... 10/26/06 - 20060241859 - Virtual earth real-time advertising Provided is a single repository for capturing, connecting, sharing, and visualizing information based on a geographic location, for example. Provided is a schema, repository, index, and APIs for any information, place, entity, attribute, service or person that can be referenced geographically. A system to provide real time image data includes ... 10/05/06 - 20060224311 - Navigation system A map display system having map data of three dimensions for displaying a three-dimensional map together with a representation of a vector map data includes an elevation acquisition means for acquiring an elevation of a route between a start point to an end point in said three-dimensional map, a position ... 10/05/06 - 20060224310 - Informative visual image matrix An informative visual image matrix. The informative visual image matrix visually links various points-of-interest on a visual image with a descriptor containing information about features of the points-of-interest. The concentric design of the informative visual image matrix creates an intuitive and integrated display easily accessible by a beginner. ... 09/28/06 - 20060217883 - Navigation system for vehicle A navigation system in a subject vehicle includes a display unit for displaying a map, a position detection function for detecting a current position and a traveling direction of the subject vehicle, a storage function for storing map data and facility data for displaying a facility icon on the map, ... 09/28/06 - 20060217882 - Vehicular navigation system With respect to a connection road linked with a rotary included in a guidance route, a vehicular navigation system acquires a dummy link that is defined to extend towards an inside of the rotary based on road map data. An advancing direction at the rotary is computed by using an ... 09/28/06 - 20060217881 - Incident command post Provided are systems and methods for tracking resources at a site and initiating audio and video communication with tracked resources using multiple input and output modalities. The systems include a location tracking system, including a positioning engine and a presentation engine, an environmental tracking system, location and environmental sensors, either ... 09/28/06 - 20060217880 - Map-based guide system and method Provided is a computer system and methods for a map-based guide. A method includes but is not limited to receiving a request for the map-based guide; determining a location associated with the request; preparing a route in accordance with the location associated with the request and in accordance with at ... 09/28/06 - 20060217879 - Map information processing device A map information processing apparatus includes an intersecting determining means (20) for determining intersection points where a new road detected by a new road detecting means (19) intersects either roads included in map information or roads previously detected by a new road detecting means, other than start and end points ... 09/07/06 - 20060200309 - Data structure of a point of interest and method for use and application of a point of interest with data structure A data structure for a point of interest (POI) and a method for use and application of POI information with the data structure, and is applied in a handheld device. The POI information for a single POI is sorted based on attributes of the POI and the sorted sets of ... 09/07/06 - 20060200308 - Server-based interactive enhanced map imagery engine Interactive maps comprising map image data may be provided from a server computer to a client computer by providing the client computer with a first portion of a display description for an interactive map, receiving a request from the client computer, wherein the request is initialized based on at least ... 08/31/06 - 20060195256 - Systems, methods, and programs for updating map data Systems, methods, and programs for updating map data create differential data in a server by comparing an old version of map data stored in the server with a new version of map data and transmit the differential data from the server to a relay device. The systems, methods and programs ... 08/31/06 - 20060195255 - Determining a display position of road name data and displaying the road name data A method of determining a display position for road name data including selecting a link representing a road segment with an initial road name display position from stored map data. An angle of the selected link is calculated, and calculating an angle of the selected link, a display reference position ... 08/24/06 - 20060190166 - Map-updating-data creating method, and map updating method and apparatus A map-updating-data creating apparatus performs, for each old map file, creating a map-updating file for rewriting the map file to a new map file, determining the serial number of each of the updated map files, creating a serial number management file in which marks are respectively written at positions corresponding ... 08/17/06 - 20060184317 - Map processor, navigation device and map displaying method In each of the divided regions of the map, a redundancy of the region is estimated from the characteristics quantity such as fractal dimension of line segments of road. Then, regions with the same redundancies are combined to form a larger area so that the map is divided according to ... 08/17/06 - 20060184316 - System and method of using map data Method and arrangement for enabling vehicles of varying form and weight to use mass-produced planning map databases in a planning system. According to the invention, road elements are extracted from a route and it is determined if these road elements, either on their own or in combination with other road ... 08/03/06 - 20060173613 - Map distributing device, map acquiring device, map processing system, map distributing method, map acquiring method, map processing program and recording medium storing the map processing program The map updating system (100) includes a server unit (400) and a terminal unit (300, 300A, 300B). The server unit (400) has an updated contents recognizer that recognizes updated contents of updated map information and generates updated contents information, a user recognizer that recognizes distribution request information and also recognizes ... 07/13/06 - 20060155464 - Methods and systems for deducing road geometry and connectivity Methods and systems for generating, deriving, and enhancing drivable road databases are provided. A baseline road in a road network is defined and position and/or trajectory data collected by vehicles traveling the baseline road are compiled and compared to a representation of the baseline road in an existing database. Identity ... 07/13/06 - 20060155463 - Digital map position information compressing method and device The present invention provides a method and apparatus for compressing data of position information such as a road on a digital map in order to realize an accurate transmission of the position information in a small volume of data. A shape vector of an object road segment is resampled, and ... 07/13/06 - 20060155462 - Computer product having distribution map data, distribution map data creation method, distrubution map data creation device, and terminal device Distribution map data for distributing a map by communication includes road data representing position information on the roads contained in a plurality of compartments and integrating name data for integrating name information for the same roads contained in the plurality of compartments without duplicating them. ... 06/22/06 - 20060136127 - Methods and apparatus for geo-collaboration Methods and computer readable medium for collaborating on geographical maps between two or more computers are disclosed. In particular, sharing a geographical location on a map between two or more computers and co-navigating a map between two or more computers are disclosed. With respect to sharing a geographical location, the ... 06/22/06 - 20060136126 - System, apparatus and method for mapping The present invention provides a novel apparatus and method for mapping of urban regions. An apparatus includes the remote sensing equipment that is connected to a computer processor. The remote sensing equipment gathers imaging data about an urban region. The computer processor interprets the imaging data to generate a map ... 06/22/06 - 20060136125 - Digital map display A digital map display having a zooming method and a zooming device is disclosed. By determining the number of entities such as buildings at the position, a desirable zoom scale for the display of a digital map for that location is set using a predetermined ration of total entities. This ... 06/08/06 - 20060122768 - Map update system, navigation apparatus and providing apparatus A map update system includes: a navigation apparatus that provides guidance from a current position to a destination having been set based upon map data stored therein and downloads various types of information requested by a user; and a providing apparatus that provides the various types of information to be ... 05/18/06 - 20060106536 - Method and apparatus for updating map data, and computer-readable medium storing program for executing the method A method and an apparatus for easily updating map data in real time, using a device employing map data or a navigation system, through a transport protocol expert group (TPEG) service, and a computer-readable medium storing a computer program for executing the method, as provided. The method includes determining if ... 05/18/06 - 20060106535 - Mapping system with improved flagging function A mapping system is movable over a terrain and operates to generate a map. The mapping system includes a geographical location unit generating location data, a timer generating time data, a pair of different interfaces for inputting flag data, such as a speech interface and a manual interface. The system ... 05/18/06 - 20060106534 - Map data delivering method for communication-type navigation system In a communication type navigation system that downloads maps, the present invention provides a map data transmission method that can reduce time before guiding is started. A map provision server searches for a traveling route connecting a starting place corresponding to current position information received from an on-vehicle terminal and ... 05/04/06 - 20060095202 - Method of delivering difference map data The present invention provides, in a car navigation system, a unit of notifying a user of the update contents of map data prior to the downloading of the map data. A vehicle-mounted terminal sets a difference update area in accordance with a selection made by a user and sends a ... 05/04/06 - 20060095201 - Muti-function navigation system A multi-function navigation system provides an electronic map to guide the user to destinations and provides information of scenic spots stored in an electronic book. The navigation system includes: a scenic spot information searching module for searching scenic spots within the selected scope of electronic map and identifying the scenic ... 04/27/06 - 20060089795 - Abridged map generating apparatus, on-vehicle information terminal, abridged map distribution system and abridged map generating method This abridged map generating apparatus includes a route searching unit that searches for a plurality of routes from a departure point to a destination which has been set, an abridged map generation unit that generates an abridged map in which road shapes of the routes which are searched out by ... 04/27/06 - 20060089794 - Touch display fishing boat steering system and method The present invention is directed towards an improved method for creating a navigational route by drawing a desired route on a screen in a continuous motion and utilizing a computer to generate GPS waypoints automatically. The desired navigation route of the boat is drawn onto the touch sensitive display predetermining ... 04/27/06 - 20060089793 - Systems, methods and devices for trip management functions Systems, methods, and devices for performing a trip management function are disclosed. A client computer accesses a server networked therewith to retrieve and store data, such as Web documents, relating to the trip. A wireless device interface allows a portable device, wirelessly coupled with a cellular telephone system with the ... 04/20/06 - 20060085122 - Abridged map generating apparatus, on-vehicle information terminal, abridged map distribution system and abridged map generating method This abridged map generating apparatus includes an abridged map generation unit that generates an abridged map in which a shape of a road is simplified based upon road map data, wherein the road map data specifies the shapes of the road by shapes of links set for each predetermined road ... 04/13/06 - 20060080032 - System and method of wireless downloads of map and geographic based data to portable computing devices A system and method of managing map data on electronic devices such as portable electronic devices which includes a system and method of preloading map data, managing map data storage, sharing point of interest or pushpin data with other electronic devices, and displaying map data is disclosed. ... 04/13/06 - 20060080031 - System and method of wireless downloads of map and geographic based data to portable computing devices A system and method of managing map data on electronic devices such as portable electronic devices which includes a system and method of preloading map data, managing map data storage, sharing point of interest or pushpin data with other electronic devices, and displaying map data is disclosed. ... 04/13/06 - 20060080030 - Automobile navigation apparatus An automobile navigation apparatus, that has a rewritable recording medium and capability to updates the map data base by obtaining latest map data, records the map data in the recording means and comprises updating data acquisition means that acquires updated data of a map to which updating procedure is added, ... 04/13/06 - 20060080029 - Navigation apparatus and server apparatus A navigation apparatus acquires geographic information from a server apparatus. When the navigation apparatus does not store any geographic information that provides a continuous route from the starting point to a destination point, it transmits data of the starting point and destination point to the server apparatus to acquire therefrom ... 03/16/06 - 20060058953 - System and method of wireless downloads of map and geographic based data to portable computing devices A system and method of managing map data on electronic devices such as portable electronic devices which includes a system and method of preloading map data, managing map data storage, sharing point of interest or pushpin data with other electronic devices, and displaying map data is disclosed. ... 03/16/06 - 20060058952 - System and method of wireless downloads of map and geographic based data to portable computing devices A system and method of managing map data on electronic devices such as portable electronic devices which includes a system and method of preloading map data, managing map data storage, sharing point of interest or pushpin data with other electronic devices, and displaying map data is disclosed. ... 03/16/06 - 20060058951 - System and method of wireless downloads of map and geographic based data to portable computing devices A system and method of managing map data on electronic devices such as portable electronic devices which includes a system and method of preloading map data, managing map data storage, sharing point of interest or pushpin data with other electronic devices, and displaying map data is disclosed. ... 03/16/06 - 20060058950 - Apparatus and method for processing and displaying traffic information in an automotive navigation system A vehicle navigation system for use with a traffic information broadcast system which transmits traffic data relating to primary road segments and a communication system which transmits traffic data relating to road segments in a local geographic area. A broadcast receiver receives the broadcast traffic data from the broadcast system ... 03/16/06 - 20060058949 - Placement of map labels Methods and systems are presented for the automatic optimal placement text or symbol labels corresponding to graphical objects on maps. Using a map server and a thin, typically mobile client, maps are dynamically drawn and displayed at the client. Optimized labeling of map objects is achieved by dividing the task ... 03/02/06 - 20060047420 - Map display device A map display device includes a display for displaying map data, a position detection means for detecting a position of a subject vehicle, a map data storage means for storing the map data and a map data process means for processing the map data. The map data process means determines ... 03/02/06 - 20060047419 - Telematic method and apparatus for managing shipping logistics Shipping logistics are managed by monitoring the location and at least one operational characteristic of the mobile shipping unit, the operational characteristic selected from the group consisting of internal temperature, external temperature, acceleration, weight, hatch status and combinations thereof; communicating at scheduled intervals data comprising the location and monitored characteristic ... 02/23/06 - 20060041376 - Automated prioritization of map objects Automatic map generation is enabled by assigning priorities to each city in a list of cities under consideration for display on a map. A mapping engine determines a reference count for each city, indicating how frequently the city appears in one or more corpora of documents. Based on the reference ... 02/23/06 - 20060041375 - Automated georeferencing of digitized map images A system and method for automatically georeferencing digitized images selects and analyzes image landmark points from disparate sources for image co-registration. A composite alignment of raster images and geographic target vectors is automatically generated using metadata sources for use in geographic display and editing environments. Cartographic alignment of raster images ... 02/09/06 - 20060031008 - On-vehicle navigation apparatus, turnoff road guiding method, driving lane specifying device, and driving lane specifying method An on-vehicle navigation apparatus 50 includes a current location calculator 21 calculating a current location of an own vehicle, a map information database 2 storing map information including road map data, a driving lane specifying section 23 detecting a lane change in response to an operation signal from a winker ... 01/05/06 - 20060004515 - Method for organizing map data A method of organizing map data on a physical storage medium is disclosed. The map data represents geographic features located in a geographic region. The method identifies at least one dense area in the geographic region. The map data representing the geographic features within the dense area have a data ... 01/05/06 - 20060004514 - Method of collecting information for a geographic database for use with a navigation system A method for collecting geographic data for use with a navigation system is disclosed. A pedestrian segment associated with a path is identified. A text description of the pedestrian segment is collected. The text description includes one of a predetermined number of phrases and a name of at least one ... 01/05/06 - 20060004513 - Method of collecting information for a geographic database for use with a navigation system A method for collecting geographic data for use with a navigation system is disclosed. A virtual pedestrian segment providing a path through an unorganized geographic area is identified. The unorganized geographic area lacks underlying organization into roads and paths. Data indicating a location of the virtual pedestrian segment is collected. ... 01/05/06 - 20060004512 - Method of operating a navigation system using images A method of operating a navigation system comprises providing an image of a geographic area through which a portion of a route between an origin and destination passes. The image is an approximate 360-degree image. The method provides a guidance information overlay on the image. The guidance information overlay may ... 12/29/05 - 20050288854 - Mobile communication terminal and map display system A map display system has a server and a mobile communication terminal connected via a communication network. The communication terminal has a storage device for storing advance map data associated with position data; a position measurement device for measuring a present position and obtaining position present position data; a present ... 12/29/05 - 20050288853 - Method for automated text placement for contour maps and chart A method for automatically placing textual information (labels) on contour maps according to modern cartographic conventions is described. A three-step process is used: in the first step contours are organized into a contour tree (a special data structure) comprised of contour groups. Each group serves as a node in the ... 12/15/05 - 20050278113 - Driving support system and driving support method A driving support system including: a vehicle location detector which detects current location and velocity vector of a vehicle; a traffic and road information database which stores point information of points on a route of the vehicle; a point information acquisition unit which acquires, from the database, the point information ... 12/01/05 - 20050267678 - Traveled point display device and program A traveled point display device determines based on map data a kind of a road that a subject vehicle travels to thereby show a traveled point in a display form corresponding to the kind of the road. First traveled points of a local road are shown in red and in ... 11/24/05 - 20050261826 - Method and apparatus for displaying a map A navigation apparatus for displaying a map that includes building symbols representing buildings. The navigation apparatus includes a map-drawing unit that draws the map of an area from map data on shapes and positions of the building symbols at a selected map scale and a displaying unit that displays the ... 11/10/05 - 20050251333 - Methods, systems and computer program products for ride matching based on current location information Systems, methods and computer program products match a passenger with a driver for a trip to a destination. Candidate driver(s) for the trip are automatically identified based on a current location for the candidate driver(s) responsive to a request from the passenger. The passenger is provided an identification of the ... 11/10/05 - 20050251332 - Method for correlating altitude and/or grade information with route points of a digital map A method for method for correlating altitude and/or grade information with route points of a digital map includes correlating geographic altitude information and/or grade information of a digital geographic map with route points of a digital map. Altitude data of a road is derived from the correlated geographic information. The ... 11/03/05 - 20050246095 - Method for inputting destination data through a mobile terminal The invention relates to a method for inputting destination data into a navigation system as well as a mobile terminal and a navigation system for executing this method. The mobile terminal having a short range wireless interface is brought into contact with the navigation system. The mobile terminal selects at ... 10/27/05 - 20050240342 - Vehicle periphery display control system A vehicle periphery display control system displays peripheral images of a vehicle which are captured by a plurality of cameras mounted on the vehicle in respective different positions thereon. A storage medium stores road configuration information of a road. A positioning unit identifies the present position of the vehicle on ... 10/13/05 - 20050228586 - Method and apparatus for displaying a night-view map A navigation apparatus including a memory for storing building data of buildings; a display; a decimating unit for decimating the building data based on the unit of the bar scale of a map appearing on the display; and a display controller for displaying the buildings on a map on the ... 10/13/05 - 20050228585 - System and method for creating accurate topographical maps using low-drift dgps The present invention is directed to a method for acquiring elevation data for an area. The method includes using a GPS receiver to map ground elevations while driving back and forth over an area and periodically recording position, elevation, and time. Then, at least one track is made across the ... 10/13/05 - 20050228584 - Map matching method, map matching device, database for shape matching, and shape matching device An object of the present invention is to provide a map matching method capable of performing a process operation in a high speed. In the map matching method of the present invention, while employing road network data in which road networks are formed in a plurality of hierarchical layers “a”, ... 10/06/05 - 20050222758 - Car navigation system When an elevated road and a usual fly-under road are located in a stacked state, two roads are shown in overlapped lines on a display unit of a car navigation system in a subject vehicle. When the subject vehicle travels the fly-under road, the elevated road is shown in a ... 09/29/05 - 20050216189 - Method for transmitting information on position on digital map and device used for the same A method of transmitting position information of a digital map capable of transmitting a position on a digital map efficiently and accurately in which a transmitting side transmits position information including coordinate series information for specifying a vector shape on a digital map and a receiving side execute map matching ... 09/29/05 - 20050216188 - On-vehicle information terminal, abridged map generating apparatus, abridged map display method and display apparatus The on-vehicle information terminal according to the present invention comprises an abridged road generating device that generates abridged roads by abridging a road map based upon map data, a road decision-making device that makes a decision as to whether or not a road is a special shape road having a ... 09/22/05 - 20050209775 - Method for determining altitude or road grade information in a motor vehicle A method for determining altitude or road grade information in a motor vehicle includes evaluating altitude or road grade information stored in a digital map by analyzing a GPS signal and/or vehicle data-based estimated altitude or road grade information. When indicated based on the evaluation, the altitude or road grade ... 09/22/05 - 20050209774 - Digital map system A method of broadcasting a digital traffic map is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting to a plurality of receivers a first road segment having a first segment first endpoint and a first segment second endpoint, and transmitting to a plurality of receivers a second road segment having a second segment ... 08/25/05 - 20050187706 - Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program storage medium Map data are managed by use of map file names representing given areas. In each map file name, the first character denotes a map structure code; the second character represents a zoom level for a zoom-in or zoom-out operation of the map on display; and the third through the fifth ... 08/25/05 - 20050187705 - Apparatus for predicting road shape An apparatus for predicting road shape comprises a map data reading unit for reading map data, a clothoid curve calculating unit for calculating a clothoid curve corresponding to a corner area based on the aforementioned map data, and a fitting unit for adjusting the aforementioned clothoid curve to the corner ... 08/18/05 - 20050182560 - Ergonomic map information system A system for the ergonomic communication of a map portion is presented. The map portion may include map information, map background, and additional information. The system includes an interface control unit that may include a graphics control unit, a processor and a memory. The system may include one or more ... 08/04/05 - 20050171691 - Geocoding locations near a specified city Specified streets or intersections that are within a specified distance of a specified city can be found by a search, even when they are not actually in that city. For computational efficiency, some addresses are included in search results even when they exceed the specified distance from the specified city ... 07/28/05 - 20050165545 - Personal communication system for communicating voice data positioning information A location tagged data provision and display system. A personal communication device (PCD) with electromagnetic communication capability has a GPS receiver and a display. The PCD requests maps and location tagged data from data providers and other for display on the PCD. The data providers respond to requests by using ... 07/28/05 - 20050165544 - Navigation arrangement based on coordinate fields An arrangement for navigation to predetermined destinations within a search area, which is divided up by means of a linear system of coordinates into coordinate fields, wherein, by means of automatic positioning at predetermined time intervals, that coordinate field is determined in which the arrangement is situated, wherein a database ... 07/21/05 - 20050159887 - Terminal apparatus for downloading map A terminal apparatus has a simple map installed therein. When a map is desired, it is checked whether or not a map of a desired place exists in the simple map. If it exists, the map of the desired place is loaded from the simple map, or if it does ... 07/21/05 - 20050159886 - Method for converting coordinate values of map data The present invention relates to a method for converting coordinate values of map data, wherein three-dimensional effects are displayed on a screen by converting two-dimensional coordinate values of objects constituting a map without using a three-dimensional graphic library and an additional storage space. In the method of the present invention, ... 07/21/05 - 20050159885 - Method for updating map data used in on-vehicle navigation apparatus, map data update system, authentication key generation apparatus and navigation apparatus In a map data update method for updating map data used in an on-vehicle navigation apparatus by installing update map data, an authentication key is generated based upon an apparatus-inherent ID assigned in correspondence to the navigation apparatus and the use of update map data installed in the navigation apparatus ... 07/21/05 - 20050159884 - Navigation apparatus A storage medium of a car navigation apparatus holds painted road sign information that is linked to a running lane of an approach road around an intersection. Suppose that a direction of an exit road with respect to an approach road at an intersection belongs to a peripheral portion of ... 07/07/05 - 20050149259 - System and method for updating, enhancing, or refining a geographic database using feedback A method for updating a geographic database is disclosed. Data collecting equipment is installed in each of a plurality of vehicles each of which also has a navigation system. The data collection equipment is used to collect data while the vehicles are being driven along roads by their respective users. ... 07/07/05 - 20050149258 - Assisting navigation of digital content using a tangible medium Techniques are disclosed for creating a tangible medium containing digital content, and using the tangible medium to navigate corresponding files stored on a computer device. A user can use an input device to move about the tangible medium, and make a selection therefrom. A computing device determines which of the ... 07/07/05 - 20050149257 - Process for updating map data and navigation system The invention concerns a process for updating map data of a navigation system in a vehicle, wherein the navigation system includes a digital map of a road and path network as well as a digital supplemental map, wherein in the digital supplemental map data supplemental to the road and path ... 06/30/05 - 20050143910 - Road map A road map is provided which allows a determination to be intuitively rendered whether a course contains an increased number of upward slopes or downward slopes as viewed in the direction of the course. A direction of the course is set up across roads indicated on the map, and upward ... 06/16/05 - 20050131637 - Method of constructing personal map database for generating personal map A method of constructing a personal map database is provided. A positioning device having a positioning functionality, installed in an automobile is provided. The automobile is set into motion along a path heading towards a destination. A plurality of positions are recorded, wherein each recorded position comprises information including a ... 06/09/05 - 20050125146 - Method and system for computing road grade data A method of obtaining data for a geographic database is disclosed. Data indicating a plurality of locations along roads including data indicating altitudes at the plurality of locations is provided. Road grade values for a plurality of subsections of the road are computed; each of the subsections is a portion ... 06/09/05 - 20050125145 - Electronic device and program for displaying map When a guiding route is included in a display target region at a photograph display mode, route data of the guiding route is also read. Within the read route data, information of a region for editing a photograph is stored. This information includes a road kind (color information), coordinates of ... ### FreshPatents.com Support - Terms & Conditions |