Navigation control device, navigation equipment, server and destination setting system

• US 20090119005A1
• Filed: 10/14/2008
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Ishibashi, Isao, Sawada, Teru
• Application Number:
  US12/285,761
• Publication Number:
  US 20090119005A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/201
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/343 Calculating itineraries, i.e. routes leading from a starting point to a series of categorical destinations using a global route restraint, round trips, touristic trips travelling salesman problem G06Q10/04; optimisation of routes G06Q10/047
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/362 received from an external device or application, e.g. PDA, mobile phone or calendar application
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker

Abstract

A navigation control device, which is mounted in navigation equipment searching for a route and sets a destination from plural pieces of position information forwarded, includes: accepting portion accepting the plural pieces of position information forwarded from the mobile terminal; present position information acquiring portion acquiring present position information about a present position of the navigation equipment; sequencing portion comparing the present position information acquired by the present position information acquiring portion with the plural pieces of position information accepted by the accepting portion, and sequencing the plural pieces of position information on the basis of a distance from the present position to a destination; and destination setting portion setting the destination on the basis of the position information sequenced by the sequencing portion.

Claims

1. A navigation control device, which is mounted in navigation equipment searching for a route and sets a destination from plural pieces of position information forwarded from a mobile terminal, comprising:

accepting portion accepting the plural pieces of position information forwarded from said mobile terminal;

present position information acquiring portion acquiring present position information about a present position of said navigation equipment;

sequencing portion comparing the present position information acquired by said present position information acquiring portion with the plural pieces of position information accepted by said accepting portion, and sequencing the plural pieces of position information on the basis of predetermined conditions including at least any one of a distance from the present position to a destination and time taken from the present position to the destination; and

destination setting portion setting the destination on the basis of the position information sequenced by said sequencing portion.

2. A navigation control device according to claim 1, further comprising:

traffic jam information acquiring portion acquiring traffic jam information; and

traffic jam information storage portion stored with the traffic jam information acquired by said traffic jam information acquiring portion,

wherein said sequencing portion sequences the plural pieces of position information in a way that takes account of the real-time traffic jam information acquired by said traffic jam information acquiring portion and the traffic jam information stored in said traffic jam information storage portion.

3. Navigation equipment comprising:

a navigation control unit setting a destination from plural pieces of position information forwarded from a mobile terminal; and

a display unit displaying a route up to a destination set by said navigation control unit,

said navigation control unit including;

accepting portion accepting the plural pieces of position information forwarded from said mobile terminal;

present position information acquiring portion acquiring present position information about a present position of said navigation equipment;

sequencing portion comparing the present position information acquired by said present position information acquiring portion with the plural pieces of position information accepted by said accepting portion, and sequencing the plural pieces of position information on the basis of predetermined conditions including at least any one of a distance from the present position to a destination and time taken from the present position to the destination; and

destination setting portion setting the destination on the basis of the position information sequenced by said sequencing portion.

4. Navigation equipment according to claim 3, wherein said navigation control unit further includes:

traffic jam information acquiring portion acquiring traffic jam information; and

traffic jam information storage portion stored with the traffic jam information acquired by said traffic jam information acquiring portion,

wherein said sequencing portion sequences the plural pieces of position information in a way that takes account of the real-time traffic jam information acquired by said traffic jam information acquiring portion and the traffic jam information stored in said traffic jam information storage portion.

5. A destination setting system setting a destination of navigation equipment by forwarding position information contained in information managed by a server to said navigation equipment via a mobile terminal,

said server including:

storage portion containing information previously associated with the position information;

extracting portion extracting plural pieces of predetermined information from the information contained in said storage portion; and

mail transmitting portion describing the plural pieces of predetermined information extracted therefrom in a mail and thus transmitting the mail,

said mobile terminal including;

receiving portion receiving the mail transmitted by said mail transmitting portion; and

forwarding portion forwarding, to said navigation equipment, plural pieces of position information associated with the plural pieces of information described in the mail received by said receiving portion,

said navigation equipment including;

a navigation control unit setting a destination from plural pieces of position information forwarded from a mobile terminal; and

a display unit displaying a route up to a destination set by said navigation control unit,

said navigation control unit including;

accepting portion accepting the plural pieces of position information forwarded from said mobile terminal;

present position information acquiring portion acquiring present position information about a present position of said navigation equipment;

sequencing portion comparing the present position information acquired by said present position information acquiring portion with the plural pieces of position information accepted by said accepting portion, and sequencing the plural pieces of position information on the basis of predetermined conditions including at least any one of a distance from the present position to a destination and time taken from the present position to the destination; and

destination setting portion setting the destination on the basis of the position information sequenced by said sequencing portion.

6. A destination setting system according to claim 5, wherein said navigation control unit further includes:

traffic jam information acquiring portion acquiring traffic jam information; and

traffic jam information storage portion stored with the traffic jam information acquired by said traffic jam information acquiring portion,

wherein said sequencing portion sequences the plural pieces of position information in a way that takes account of the real-time traffic jam information acquired by said traffic jam information acquiring portion and the traffic jam information stored in said traffic jam information storage portion.

7. A destination setting system setting a destination of navigation equipment by forwarding position information contained in information managed by a server to said navigation equipment via a mobile terminal,

said server including:

server-sided position information acquiring portion acquiring plural pieces of position information for setting a destination of said navigation equipment;

server-sided sequencing portion sequencing the plural pieces of position information acquired by said server-sided position information acquiring portion; and

mail transmitting portion describing the plural pieces of position information sequenced by said sequencing portion in a mail and thus transmitting the mail to said mobile terminal,

said navigation equipment including;

accepting portion accepting the plural pieces of position information forwarded from said mobile terminal;

destination setting portion setting a destination on the basis of the plurality of position information accepted by said accepting portion and sequenced by said server; and

display portion displaying a route up to the destination set by said destination setting portion.

8. A server in a destination setting system setting a destination of navigation equipment by forwarding position information contained in information managed by a server to said navigation equipment via a mobile terminal, comprising:

server-sided position information acquiring portion acquiring plural pieces of position information for setting a destination of said navigation equipment;

server-sided sequencing portion sequencing the plural pieces of position information acquired by said server-sided position information acquiring portion; and

mail transmitting portion describing the plural pieces of position information sequenced by said sequencing portion in a mail and thus transmitting the mail to said mobile terminal.

9. A server according to claim 8, wherein said server-sided sequencing portion sequences the plural pieces of position information on the basis of sequencing reference information containing at least one of traffic jam information acquired by said server and required time information taken up to the destination.

10. A server according to claim 8, wherein said server-sided sequence changing portion, when a query is given from said mobile terminal, again executes the sequencing process.

11. A server according to any one of claim 8, wherein the position information contains, in addition to the present position information about the present position and the destination information about the destination, via-location information about a via-location.

12. Navigation equipment in a destination setting system setting a destination of navigation equipment by forwarding position information contained in information managed by a server to said navigation equipment via a mobile terminal, comprising:

accepting portion accepting via said mobile terminal the plural pieces of position information described in a mail transmitted from a mail transmitting portion of said server including server-sided position information acquiring portion acquiring plural pieces of position information for setting a destination of said navigation equipment, server-sided sequencing portion sequencing the plural pieces of position information acquired by said server-sided position information acquiring portion, and said mail transmitting portion describing the plural pieces of position information sequenced by said sequencing portion in a mail and thus transmitting the mail to said mobile terminal;

destination setting portion setting a destination on the basis of the plurality of position information accepted by said accepting portion and sequenced by said server; and

display portion displaying a route up to the destination set by said destination setting portion.