Vehicle navigation system for use with a telematics system
First Claim
1. A navigation system for a vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle-based telematics system;
a vehicle-based global positioning system operable to determine a geographic position of the vehicle; and
a control, said telematics system being operable to receive a user input from a driver of the vehicle and download directional information from an external service provider to said control in response to said user input and an initial geographic position of the vehicle, said directional information comprising at least two instructions with each of said at least two instructions being coded or associated with or linked to a respective geographic location, said control being operable to provide an output corresponding to each of said at least two instructions in response to a current actual geographic position of the vehicle determined by said vehicle-based global positioning system, said control being operable to provide each instruction only when the then current actual geographic position of the vehicle at least generally corresponds to the particular geographic location associated with said each instruction.
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Abstract
A navigation system for a vehicle includes a vehicle-based telematics system, a vehicle-based global positioning system and a control. The telematics system is operable to receive a user input from a driver of the vehicle and to download directional information from an external service provider to the control in response to the user input and an initial geographic position of the vehicle. The directional information comprises at least two instructions with each of the instructions being coded or associated with or linked to a respective geographic location. The control is operable to provide an output corresponding to each of the instructions in response to a current actual geographic position of the vehicle. The control is operable to provide each instruction only when the then current actual geographic position of the vehicle at least generally corresponds to the particular geographic location associated with the instruction.
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28 Claims
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1. A navigation system for a vehicle comprising:
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a vehicle-based telematics system;
a vehicle-based global positioning system operable to determine a geographic position of the vehicle; and
a control, said telematics system being operable to receive a user input from a driver of the vehicle and download directional information from an external service provider to said control in response to said user input and an initial geographic position of the vehicle, said directional information comprising at least two instructions with each of said at least two instructions being coded or associated with or linked to a respective geographic location, said control being operable to provide an output corresponding to each of said at least two instructions in response to a current actual geographic position of the vehicle determined by said vehicle-based global positioning system, said control being operable to provide each instruction only when the then current actual geographic position of the vehicle at least generally corresponds to the particular geographic location associated with said each instruction. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for providing navigational directions to a driver of a vehicle comprising:
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accessing a remote source via a vehicle-based wireless communication system;
providing an initial geographic position of the vehicle via a vehicle-based global positioning system;
downloading local information from the remote source to a control of the vehicle via the wireless communication system in response to a user input and said initial geographic position of the vehicle, said local information comprising at least two driving instructions, each of the at least two driving instructions being associated with or linked to a respective particular geographic location;
providing a current geographic position of the vehicle to said control via said vehicle-based global positioning system; and
providing each of said at least two driving instructions to the driver only when the then current geographic position of the vehicle at least generally matches the particular geographic location associated with or linked to the respective one of said at least two driving instructions. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A navigation system for a vehicle comprising:
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a vehicle-based telematics system;
a vehicle-based global positioning system operable to determine a geographic position of the vehicle; and
a control, said telematics system being operable to receive a user input from a driver of the vehicle and to download directional information to said control of the vehicle in response to said user input and an initial geographic position of the vehicle, said directional information comprising at least two instructions, said control being operable to tag or code or link each of the at least two instructions with a respective geographic location, said control being operable to provide an output corresponding to a particular one of the at least two instructions only when the geographic location tagged or coded or linked to the particular instruction at least generally corresponds to the current actual geographic position of the vehicle determined by said vehicle-based global positioning system. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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