Car navigation system

• US 20060136120A1
• Filed: 10/27/2004
• Published: 06/22/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Koga, Yasutaka
• Granted Patent: US 7,660,653 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/200
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/26 specially adapted for navigation in a road network
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096838 where the user preferences are taken into account or the user selects one route out of a plurality

Abstract

A car navigation system includes: a vehicle-information acquiring means 14 for acquiring the vehicle information held by a vehicle 2; a setting-information generating means 15, 16 for generating setting information to be set in a processing program 19 based on the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle-information acquiring means; a setting-information notification means 17 for notifying the setting information generated by the setting-information generating means 15, 16 to the processing program 19; and a setting-information switching means 18, included in the processing program 19, for switching the internal setting state of the processing program 19 according to the setting information given by the setting-information notification means, wherein the processing program 19 performs a navigation function in the setting state switched by the setting-information switching means 18.

Claims

1. A car navigation system provided with a processing program for performing a navigation function comprising:

a vehicle-information acquiring means for acquiring the vehicle information held by a vehicle;

a setting-information generating means for generating setting information to be set in the processing program based on the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle-information acquiring means;

a setting-information notification means for notifying the setting information generated by the setting-information generating means to the processing program; and

a setting-information switching means, included in the processing program, for switching the setting state in the processing program according to the setting information sent by the setting-information notification means;

wherein the processing program executes the processing that performs a navigation function in the setting state switched by the setting-information switching means.

2. A car navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle-information acquiring means includes customer information representing the provider of the vehicle, and the processing program executes processing that performs the navigation function according to this customer information.

3. A car navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle-information acquiring means includes regional information, linguistic information, and steering-wheel information, and the processing program executes processing that performs the navigation function according to the regional information, the linguistic information, and the steering-wheel information.

4. A car navigation system according to claim 1, wherein the navigation function includes at least one of a location function detecting the vehicle position, a map-display function displaying the map, a menu-display function displaying the menu, an opening function displaying the start-up screen, and a retrieval function selecting data for retrieving an address and facilities.