Information display system

• US 20040054468A1
• Filed: 08/12/2003
• Published: 03/18/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Shibata, yumii, Masuda, Hiroyoshi, Yamada, Kunihiro, Yamazaki, Kiyonobu
• Granted Patent: US 6,944,539 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/211
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/36 Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0969 having a display in the form of a map

Abstract

An information display system including an input device that inputs a scheduled event, a schedule storage in which the schedule is stored, a display device that displays a map, a memory that stores map information and the scheduled event, and a controller that displays a schedule reminder message on the map at a specified time before the scheduled event is to occur.

Claims

1. An information display system, comprising:

(a) a map information storage in which map information is stored;

(b) an input device from which a schedule is inputted;

(c) a schedule storage in which the schedule is stored;

(d) a display device on which a map is displayed; and

(e) a display control device by which a schedule reminder message is displayed on the map at a specified time.

2. The information display system according to claim 1, comprising:

(a) a server in which the map information storage, the schedule storage, and a transmit-receive unit are included;

(b) a first information terminal in which the input device and a transmit-receive unit are included; and

(c) a second information terminal in which the display device, the display control device, and a transmit-receive unit are included.

3. The information display system according to claim 1, comprising:

(a) a server in which the map information storage, the schedule storage, and a transmit-receive unit are included; and

(b) an information terminal in which the input device, the display device, the display control device, and a transmit-receive unit are included.

4. The information display system according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the specified time at which the schedule reminder message is displayed on the map comes within a period of the schedule.

5. The information display system according to claim 4, wherein the display device displays a calendar on which the period of the schedule is displayed by means of the display control device.

6. The information display system according to claim 4 or 5, wherein a location of the schedule is displayed on the map by means of the display control device.

7. The information display system according to claim 6, wherein a route to the location of the schedule is displayed on the map by means of the display control device.

8. The information display system according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the specified time at which the schedule reminder message is displayed on the map comes before a date and time of the schedule.

9. The information display system according to claim 8, wherein the specified time at which the schedule reminder message is displayed on the map is the moment when a present position of an operator'"'"'s vehicle arrives at a specified location.

10. The information display system according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the schedule reminder message may be given acoustically or visually.