PORTABLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NAVIGATION DATA

• US 20070143016A1
• Filed: 03/16/2006
• Published: 06/21/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Compal Electronics Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Compal Electronics Incorporated
• Inventors: Chuang, Ko-Chien, Kung, Shao-Tsu
• Application Number:
  US11/308,307
• Publication Number:
  US 20070143016A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/213
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3885 Transmission of map data to client devices; Reception of map data by client devices

Abstract

A portable device capable for providing navigation data and the method thereof. The portable device includes a mask ROM (Read Only Memory), an input unit, a RAM (Random Access Memory), a GPS (Global Positioning System) unit, a CPU (Central Processing Unit), and an output unit. First, an updated navigation map data is provided into the input unit of the portable device and stored in the RAM. Then, the CPU compares the updated navigation map data with an original navigation map data stored in the mask ROM to generate a revised navigation map data. Afterwards, the CPU calculates the position of the user on the revised navigation map data according to a positioning coordinate from the GPS unit.

Claims

1. A portable device capable for providing navigation data, comprising:

a mask ROM for storing and providing an original navigation map data;

an input unit for receiving an updated navigation map data;

a RAM for storing the updated navigation map data;

a GPS unit for receiving a positioning coordinate from a GPS; and

a CPU electrically coupled to the mask ROM, the input unit, the RAM, and the GPS unit, wherein the CPU reads the original navigation map data, and when the updated navigation map data exists, the CPU uses the updated navigation map data to revise the original navigation map data in order to generate a revised navigation map data and to find a position represented by the positioning coordinate on the revised navigation map data.

2. The portable device capable for providing navigation data of claim 1, further comprising an output unit electrically coupled to the CPU for displaying the revised navigation map data and the position represented by the positioning coordinate.

3. The portable device capable for providing navigation data of claim 1, wherein the input unit is a wired data transmission module.

4. The portable device capable for providing navigation data of claim 1, wherein the input unit is a wireless data transmission module.

5. The portable device capable for providing navigation data of claim 4, wherein the input unit comprises a GPRS network data transmission module.

6. A method for providing navigation data suitable for a portable device, comprising:

using a mask ROM to store an original navigation map data;

determining whether an updated navigation map data exists or not;

if the updated navigation map data exists, using the updated navigation map data and the original navigation map data to generate a revised navigation map data;

receiving a positioning coordinate; and

finding a position of the positioning coordinate on the revised navigation map data.

7. The method for providing navigation data of claim 6, further comprising using a wired data communication module to receive the updated navigation map data.

8. The method for providing navigation data of claim 6, further comprising using a GPRS network data communication module to receive the updated navigation map data.

9. The method for providing navigation data of claim 8, further comprising using a RAM to store the updated navigation map data.

10. The method for providing navigation data of claim 6, further comprising using a display unit to display the revised navigation map data and the position of the positioning coordinate.