Method of determining driving routes

• US 20040032344A1
• Filed: 06/02/2003
• Published: 02/19/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Slickers, Dirk
• Granted Patent: US 6,988,035 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/995.19
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3611 using character input or menus, e.g. menus of POIs character input methods in general G06F3/0233
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3664 Details of the user input interface, e.g. buttons, knobs or sliders, including those provided on a touch screen; remote controllers; input using gestures

Abstract

A method of determining the driving route of a vehicle using a navigation system, a method of entering a destination on a navigation device, as well as a device to perform the methods, using which the destination input is simplified. Approaching infrastructure facilities through input using predefined keys or touch-sensitive fields, the driving route being established as a function of the automatically determined, instantaneous vehicle position. Entering the administrative area in which the infrastructure facility is located is no longer necessary.

Claims

1. A method of determining a driving route of a motor vehicle using a navigation system, comprising:

inputting a close destination;

automatically determining an instantaneous vehicle position;

making an assignment to an administrative area in which the vehicle is located, as a function of the vehicle position; and

subsequently ascertaining the driving route to the close destination in the assigned administrative area.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the close destination is input using one of symbol keys and selection fields of a menu structure, by specifying at least one of a street name and a designation of an infrastructure facility.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising determining the driving route for one of a nearest and a most rapidly reachable close destination.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising making a query regarding a final selection, when a clear destination is not precisely entered.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the query prompts for a direction in which a desired close destination is located.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising, in a boundary area of an administrative area, making a query regarding a desired administrative area.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the driving route is ascertained, which is located along a stretch having a plurality of parking facilities.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising setting a closed destination input mode, prior to inputting the close destination.

9. A method of inputting a destination on a navigation device, comprising:

making an input using at least one of (a) predefined keys and (b) touch-sensitive fields for infrastructure facilities.

10. A device for a motor vehicle navigation system comprising:

means for providing at least one of (a) predefined keys and (b) selection fields showing infrastructure facilities independently of an administrative area.