Method for inputting a destinations into a navigation device

• US 20040010365A1
• Filed: 12/23/2002
• Published: 01/15/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Duckeck, Ralf
• Granted Patent: US 6,947,834 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/201
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3611 using character input or menus, e.g. menus of POIs character input methods in general G06F3/0233

Abstract

A method for entering destinations into a navigation device is described, characters of a destination name being input and a list of destination names which begin with the character(s) input being generated as a function of the character(s) input, in which the list of destination names is generated as a function of the distance of the destinations assigned to the destination names, from a current location.

The method eases and accelerates navigation destination input, in particular in those cases in which multiple destination names and destinations exist which fit one or more letters of the destination name input.

Claims

1. A method for entering destinations into a navigation device, characters of a destination name being input and a list of destination names which begin with the character(s) input being generated as a function of the character(s) input, wherein the list of destination names is generated as a function of the distance of the destinations assigned to the destination names, from a current location.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein only those destination names whose assigned destinations lie within a selected radius of the current location are incorporated into the list.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 or 2, wherein the list is sorted as a function of the distance of the destinations assigned to the destination names, from the current location.