INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE AND NAVIGATION DEVICE

• US 20130297202A1
• Filed: 03/30/2011
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Monde, Yasuhiro, Oi, Makoto, Tamiya, Satoshi, Matsumoto, Masahito
• Application Number:
  US13/979,515
• Publication Number:
  US 20130297202A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/430
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3679 Retrieval, searching and output of POI information, e.g. hotels, restaurants, shops, filling stations, parking facilities G01C21/3611 takes precedence

Abstract

There is provided a device that receives a broadcast providing a data distribution service from a broadcast station, registers data related to facilities acquired through the data distribution service in a primary database, extracts from the primary database data related to facilities near the position of the host vehicle every time a host vehicle has run a predetermined distance, registers the extracted data in a secondary database, and presents data for presentation extracted from the secondary database to a user.

Claims

1. An information presentation device to be installed in or carried by a movable entity, comprising:

a receiving unit for acquiring data related to facilities by receiving a broadcast providing a data distribution service from a broadcast station;

a primary database storing unit for storing a primary database in which the data acquired by the receiving unit are registered;

a database update processing unit for updating content in the primary database with data acquired by the receiving unit every time the receiving unit acquires data;

a travel distance detection unit for detecting that the movable entity has traveled a predetermined distance;

a position detection unit for detecting a position of the movable entity;

a secondary-data extraction processing unit for extracting, from the primary database, data related to facilities near the position of the movable entity detected by the position detection unit at each time point when the travel distance detection unit detects that the movable entity has traveled the predetermined distance;

a secondary database storing unit for storing a secondary database in which the data extracted by the secondary-data extraction processing unit are registered;

a presentation-data extraction processing unit for extracting data for presentation from the data registered in the secondary database; and

a presentation unit for presenting the data extracted by the presentation-data extraction processing unit to a user.

2. The information presentation device of claim 1, wherein the primary database, the database update processing unit, the secondary-data extraction processing unit, the secondary database, and the presentation-data extraction processing unit are provided for each kind of facilities provided by data distribution services,

each secondary-data extraction processing unit is assigned a priority corresponding to respective kind of facilities, and

the secondary-data extraction processing unit having a lower priority suspends extraction of data from the corresponding primary database while the secondary-data extraction processing unit having a higher priority is extracting data from the corresponding primary database.

3. The information presentation device of claim 1, further comprising a saved data storing unit for saving content of the secondary database, wherein the secondary-data extraction processing unit restores the secondary database with the content saved in the saved data storing unit in a case where the content in the secondary database storing unit has been erased.

4. The information presentation device of claim 1, wherein the movable entity is a vehicle, the information presentation device further comprising a remaining level monitoring unit for monitoring a remaining level of energy used to drive the vehicle, wherein

the primary data base stored in the primary database storing unit contains data related to energy-supplying facilities, the data being acquired through the receiving unit,

the secondary-data extraction processing unit extracts data from the primary database when the remaining level monitoring unit determines that the remaining level of energy is a predetermined threshold value or less, but does not extract data from the primary database when the remaining level monitoring unit determines that the remaining level of energy is more than the predetermined threshold value.

5. The information presentation device of claim 4, wherein the presentation-data extraction processing unit extracts the data for presentation from the secondary database when the remaining level monitoring unit determines that the remaining level of energy is the predetermined threshold value or less, but does not extract the data for presentation from the secondary database when the remaining level monitoring unit determines that the remaining level of energy is more than the predetermined threshold value.

6. The information presentation device of claim 1, further comprising an unnecessary data deleting unit for deleting unnecessary data from the primary database.

7. The information presentation device of claim 6, wherein the unnecessary data deleting unit deletes, as unnecessary data from the primary database, data related to a facility that is at a distance of a predetermined distance or more from the position of the movable entity detected by the position detection unit.

8. The information presentation device of claim 6, wherein the unnecessary data deleting unit deletes, as unnecessary data from the primary database, data that was received by the receiving unit more than a predetermined time before a current time.

9. A navigation device to be installed in or carried by a movable entity, comprising:

a receiving unit for acquiring data related to facilities by receiving a broadcast providing a data distribution service from a broadcast station;

a primary database storing unit for storing a primary database in which the data acquired by the receiving unit are recorded;

a database update processing unit for updating content in the primary database with data acquired by the receiving unit every time the receiving unit acquires data;

a position detection unit for detecting a position of the movable entity;

a destination setting unit for setting a destination of the movable entity;

a route searching unit for searching a guide route for the movable entity based on the position of the movable entity detected by the position detection unit, the destination set by the destination setting unit, and map data acquired from a map data storing unit;

a secondary-data extraction processing unit for extracting, from the primary database, data related to facilities located along the guide route searched by the route searching unit;

a secondary database storing unit for storing a secondary database in which the data extracted by the secondary-data extraction processing unit are registered;

a presentation-data extraction processing unit for extracting data for presentation from the data registered in the secondary database; and

a presentation unit for presenting the data extracted by the presentation-data extraction processing unit to a user.

10. The navigation device of claim 9, wherein the primary database, the database update processing unit, the secondary-data extraction processing unit, the secondary database, and the presentation-data extraction processing unit are provided for each kind of facilities provided by data distribution services,

each secondary-data extraction processing unit is assigned a priority corresponding to respective kind of facilities, and

the secondary-data extraction processing unit having a lower priority suspends extraction of data from the corresponding primary database while the secondary-data extraction processing unit having a higher priority is extracting data from the corresponding primary database.

11. The navigation device of claim 9, further comprising a saved data storing unit for saving content of the secondary database, wherein the secondary-data extraction processing unit restores the secondary database with the content saved in the saved data storing unit in a case where the content in the secondary database storing unit has been erased.

12. The navigation device of claim 9, further comprising a travel distance detection unit for detecting that the movable entity has traveled a predetermined distance, wherein the secondary-data extraction processing unit, while no guide route is searched by the route searching unit, extracts from the primary database data related to facilities near the position of the movable entity detected by the position detection unit at each time point when the travel distance detection unit detects that the movable entity has traveled the predetermined distance.