Navigation device

• US 20050004755A1
• Filed: 05/12/2004
• Published: 01/06/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Ogura, Shiro
• Application Number:
  US10/843,472
• Publication Number:
  US 20050004755A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/209
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3641 Personalized guidance, e.g. limited guidance on previously travelled routes

Abstract

When a secret mode is set, a variety of information including driving log containing destination, routes, distance covered, and direction of travel are stored in second storing means. Thus, when a user wants to keep various information unique to the user secret strictly from other users at the time the navigation device is used, the user has only to set a memory mode to a secret mode to use the device. After that, the user has only to remove the second storing means from the main body of the device to hold and manage the storing means by himself or herself.

Claims

1. A navigation device including input means for doing various inputs;

output means for displaying a variety of information including route guidance, a vehicle position, and set information;

map information acquiring means for acquiring map information;

position detecting means for detecting a vehicle position based on detection signals from various sensors; and

route searching means for searching a route answering the purpose, the navigation device comprising;

first storing means built in the main body of the device, for storing in a normal mode a variety of information including destination setting, registration information, and driving log;

second storing means arranged removably from the main body of the device, for storing in a secret mode a variety of information including the destination setting, registration information, and driving log; and

memory mode selecting means for selecting the first storing means when the normal mode is set, and selecting the second storing means when the secret mode is set, depending on which mode is set by the input means.

2. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein the second storing means has a personal identification capability.

3. The navigation device according to claim 1, wherein a variety of information stored in the second storing means is selectable by a user.

4. A navigation device including input means doing various inputs;

output means for displaying a variety of information including a route guidance, a vehicle position, and set information;

map information acquiring means for acquiring map information;

position detecting means for detecting a vehicle position based on detection signals from various sensors; and

route searching means for searching a route answering the purpose;

the navigation device comprising;

storing means built in the main body of the device and having a first storing area for storing in a normal mode a variety of information including destination setting, registration information, and driving log, and a second storing area for storing in a secret mode a variety of information including the destination setting, registration information, and driving log;

memory mode selecting means for selecting the first storing area when the normal mode is set, and selecting the second storing area when the secret mode is set, depending on which mode is set by the input means; and

deleting means for deleting a variety of information including the destination setting, registration information and driving log, which has been stored in the second storing area, when the secret mode is cancelled.

5. The navigation device according to claim 4, wherein a variety of information stored in the second storing area is selectable by a user.