POSITION REGISTERING APPARATUS, ROUTE RETRIEVING APPARATUS, POSITION REGISTERING METHOD, POSITION REGISTERING PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20090030607A1
• Filed: 03/05/2007
• Published: 01/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Sakata, Daisuke, Goto, Seiji, Yano, Kenichiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,521,425 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/209
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3605 Destination input or retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3685 the POI's being parking facilities
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/09626 where the origin of the information is within the own vehicle, e.g. a local storage device, digital map
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096716 where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096741 where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096775 where the origin of the information is a central station
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096827 where the route is computed onboard
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/096894 where input is assisted by the navigation device, i.e. the user does not type the complete name of the destination, e.g. using zip codes, telephone numbers, progressively selecting from initial letters
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/102 using electrical means
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means

Abstract

In a position registering apparatus, an acquiring unit acquires traveling state information indicating a traveling state of a mobile object and a position identifying unit specifies the current position of the mobile object, based on the traveling state information and map information. After the current position of the mobile object is identified to be on a road within a predetermined range from a destination set by a destination setting unit and is then identified to be at a place other than the road, if the parking determining unit determines that the mobile object is parked, a registering unit registers, into a storage unit, a deviation point from the road as an entrance point of a parking lot of the destination.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. A position registering apparatus comprising:

an acquiring unit that acquires traveling state information indicating a traveling state of a mobile object;

a position identifying unit that identifies a current position of the mobile object based on the traveling state information and map information;

a destination setting unit that sets a destination;

a parking determining unit that determines whether the mobile object is parked; and

a registering unit that, when it is determined that the mobile object is parked after the current position of the mobile object identified to be on a road within a predetermined range from the destination is then identified to be at a place other than the road, registers into a storage unit, a deviation point from the road as an entrance point to a parking lot of the destination, wherein the registering unit is able to register, into the storage unit, a plurality of the entrance points for one destination.

11. The position registering apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the registering unit, when the current position of the mobile object identified to be at a place other than a road is then identified to be on a road after an entrance point of the parking lot of the destination has been registered, registers into the storage unit, a returning point onto the road as an exit point of the parking lot of the destination.

12. A position registering apparatus comprising:

an acquiring unit that acquires traveling state information indicating a traveling state of a mobile object;

a position identifying unit that identifies a current position of the mobile object based on the traveling state information and map information;

a destination setting unit that sets a destination;

a parking determining unit that determines whether the mobile object is parked; and

a registering unit that, when it is determined that the mobile object is parked after the current position of the mobile object identified to be on a road within a predetermined range from the destination is then identified to be at a place other than the road, registers into a storage unit, a deviation point from the road as an entrance point to a parking lot of the destination, wherein the predetermined range is set according to a type of the destination.

13. A route retrieving apparatus comprising:

a position registering apparatus including an acquiring unit that acquires traveling state information indicating a traveling state of a mobile object, a position identifying unit that identifies a current position of the mobile object based on the traveling state information and map information, a destination setting unit that sets a destination;

a parking determining unit that determines whether the mobile object is parked, and a registering unit that, when it is determined that the mobile object is parked after the current position of the mobile object identified to be on a road within a predetermined range from the destination is then identified to be at a place other than the road, registers into a storage unit, a deviation point from the road as an entrance point to a parking lot of the destination; and

a route retrieving unit that retrieves a route to the destination, wherein the registering unit is able to register, into the storage unit, a plurality of the entrance points for one destination, and the route retrieving unit, when an entrance point of the parking lot of the destination has been registered, retrieves a route to the entrance point of the parking lot.

14. A route retrieving apparatus comprising:

a position registering apparatus including an acquiring unit that acquires traveling state information indicating a traveling state of a mobile object, a position identifying unit that identifies a current position of the mobile object based on the traveling state information and map information, a destination setting unit that sets a destination;

a parking determining unit that determines whether the mobile object is parked, and a registering unit that, when it is determined that the mobile object is parked after the current position of the mobile object identified to be on a road within a predetermined range from the destination is then identified to be at a place other than the road, registers into a storage unit, a deviation point from the road as an entrance point to a parking lot of the destination; and

a route retrieving unit that retrieves a route to the destination, wherein the registering unit is able to register, into the storage unit, a plurality of the entrance points for one destination, the registering unit, when the current position of the mobile object identified to be at a place other than a road is then identified to be on a road after an entrance point of the parking lot of the destination has been registered, registers into the storage unit, a returning point onto the road as an exit point of the parking lot of the destination, and the route retrieving unit, when the current position of the mobile object is identified to be at a place other than a road and within a predetermined range from the destination for which an exit point is registered, and a different destination is set, retrieves a route from the exit point to the different destination.

15. A position registering method comprising:

acquiring traveling state information indicating a traveling state of a mobile object;

identifying a current position of the mobile object based on the traveling state information and map information;

setting a destination;

determining whether the mobile object is parked; and

registering into a storage unit, when it is determined that the mobile object is parked after the current position of the mobile object identified to be on a road within a predetermined range from the destination is then identified to be at a place other than the road, a deviation point from the road as an entrance point to a parking lot of the destination, wherein the registering includes being able to register, into the storage unit, a plurality of the entrance points for one destination.

16. A position registering method comprising:

acquiring traveling state information indicating a traveling state of a mobile object;

identifying a current position of the mobile object based on the traveling state information and map information;

setting a destination;

determining whether the mobile object is parked; and

registering into a storage unit, when it is determined that the mobile object is parked after the current position of the mobile object identified to be on a road within a predetermined range from the destination is then identified to be at a place other than the road, a deviation point from the road as an entrance point to a parking lot of the destination, wherein the predetermined range is set according to a type of the destination.

17. A computer-readable recording medium storing therein a position-registering computer program that causes a computer to execute:

acquiring traveling state information indicating a traveling state of a mobile object;

identifying a current position of the mobile object based on the traveling state information and map information;

setting a destination;

determining whether the mobile object is parked; and

registering into a storage unit, when it is determined that the mobile object is parked after the current position of the mobile object identified to be on a road within a predetermined range from the destination is then identified to be at a place other than the road, a deviation point from the road as an entrance point to a parking lot of the destination, wherein the registering includes being able to register, into the storage unit, a plurality of the entrance points for one destination.

18. A computer-readable recording medium storing therein a position-registering computer program that causes a computer to execute:

acquiring traveling state information indicating a traveling state of a mobile object;

identifying a current position of the mobile object based on the traveling state information and map information;

setting a destination;

determining whether the mobile object is parked; and

registering into a storage unit, when it is determined that the mobile object is parked after the current position of the mobile object identified to be on a road within a predetermined range from the destination is then identified to be at a place other than the road, a deviation point from the road as an entrance point to a parking lot of the destination, wherein the predetermined range is set according to a type of the destination.