Broadcasting system, broadcast receiving hardware systems, and navigation terminal
First Claim
1. An information broadcasting method characterized in that said broadcasting method has:
- an information transmitting means for adding, to the information to be broadcast, the information specifying the spots or areas to which the information broadcast is to be transmitted, and then transmitting the information to be broadcast, and;
an information receiving means for retrieving the first information that specifies the spot or area where the vehicle currently exists, or the spots or areas where the vehicle is likely to exist in the future, retrieving the second information that specifies the spots or areas to which the information added to received information is to be transmitted, comparing the first information and the second information, selecting received information on the basis of the results, and displaying the selected information.
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Abstract
To ensure that of all information transmitted through broadcast communications, only the information corresponding to the traveling route of a mobile body will be efficiently displayed at the information terminal of a car navigation system or the like, the information terminal is provided with:
a means for receiving the spot or area information being transmitted, and receiving information that has been linked to the spot or area information being transmitted,
a means for judging whether the spot or area information that has been received above is included in part of the spot or area information corresponding to the traveling route of the mobile body, and storage media for retaining the received spot or area information that the above-mentioned judgment means has judged to be included in the spot or area information corresponding to the traveling route of the mobile body.
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27 Claims
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1. An information broadcasting method characterized in that said broadcasting method has:
- an information transmitting means for adding, to the information to be broadcast, the information specifying the spots or areas to which the information broadcast is to be transmitted, and then transmitting the information to be broadcast, and;
an information receiving means for retrieving the first information that specifies the spot or area where the vehicle currently exists, or the spots or areas where the vehicle is likely to exist in the future, retrieving the second information that specifies the spots or areas to which the information added to received information is to be transmitted, comparing the first information and the second information, selecting received information on the basis of the results, and displaying the selected information. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
- an information transmitting means for adding, to the information to be broadcast, the information specifying the spots or areas to which the information broadcast is to be transmitted, and then transmitting the information to be broadcast, and;
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2. An information broadcasting method characterized in that said broadcasting method has:
- an information transmitting means for adding, to the information to be broadcast, the information specifying the spots or areas to which the information broadcast is to be transmitted, and the information specifying the effective time-of-day/available hours of the information to be broadcast, and then transmitting the information to be broadcast, and;
an information receiving means for retrieving the first information that specifies the spot or area where the vehicle currently exists, or the spots or areas where the vehicle is likely to exist in the future, retrieving the second information that specifies the spots or areas to which the information added to received information is to be transmitted, retrieving the third information that specifies the effective time-of-day/available hours corresponding to the spot or area where the vehicle currently exists, or corresponding to the spots or areas where the vehicle is likely to exist in the future, retrieving the fourth information that specifies the effective time-of-day/available hours of the information added to received information, comparing the first information and the second information, comparing the third information and the fourth information, selecting received information on the basis of the results, and displaying the selected information. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
- an information transmitting means for adding, to the information to be broadcast, the information specifying the spots or areas to which the information broadcast is to be transmitted, and the information specifying the effective time-of-day/available hours of the information to be broadcast, and then transmitting the information to be broadcast, and;
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14. Traffic information editing equipment characterized in that said equipment has a means by which the regulation information shown as road signs and road markings in detail, static cautionary information for specific zones on the road (hereinafter, these two types of information are referred to collectively as road regulation information), and the event-associated traffic limit and cautionary information occurring in real time (hereinafter, this type of information is referred to as event regulation information) can be entered by specifying the location, direction, period, and other conditions required for the presentation of information, and a means for storing the above-mentioned road regulation information and event regulation information (hereinafter, both types of information are referred to collectively as traffic regulation information).
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22. An information broadcasting method characterized in that an information delivering method and an information receiving method are contained in said broadcasting method;
- wherein the information delivering method comprises the step of, prior to the broadcasting of information, adding to the information broadcast the information relating to the spot of the information transmission source, the distance herefrom, and the route hereto, and the step of broadcasting the information, and;
the information receiving method comprises the step of calculating the route and the distance from the information specifying the current spot of the vehicle and from the spot information of the information transmission source that has been added to the delivered information, the step of comparing the calculated route and the route to the information transmission source that has been added to the delivered information, the step of comparing the calculated distance and the distance to the information transmission source that has been added to the delivered information, and the step of receiving only the necessary information on the basis of comparison results. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27)
- wherein the information delivering method comprises the step of, prior to the broadcasting of information, adding to the information broadcast the information relating to the spot of the information transmission source, the distance herefrom, and the route hereto, and the step of broadcasting the information, and;
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23. An information receiving hardware system that receives information to which the information relating to the spot of the information transmission source, the distance herefrom, and the route hereto, has been added;
- wherein the receiving hardware system has the capabilities to calculate the route and the distance from the information specifying the current spot of the vehicle and from the spot information of the information transmission source that has been added to the delivered information, to compare the calculated route and the route to the information transmission source that has been added to the delivered information, to compare the calculated distance and the distance to the information transmission source that has been added to the delivered information, and to receive only the necessary information on the basis of comparison results.
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24. An information providing scheme in which the information provider creates the optimum independent information beforehand for each situation of the user, then adds the user'"'"'s situation information to the corresponding broadcast information that has been created, and delivers the broadcast information with the user'"'"'s situation information added.
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