INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, ROUTE NAVIGATOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20160003633A1
• Filed: 07/10/2015
• Published: 01/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: C/O SONY CORPORATION
• Original Assignee: C/O SONY CORPORATION
• Inventors: Suzuki, Toshikazu
• Granted Patent: US 9,631,937 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/34 Route searching; Route guidance
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3484 Personalized, e.g. from learned user behaviour or user-defined profiles

Abstract

An information processing apparatus may be implemented as a route navigator, which uses a route navigation method and a computer program product. A processing circuit is used to calculate respective passage frequencies of passageway segments in a passage history. The processing circuit then selects a navigation route to a destination, includes at least one passageway segment with a passage frequency that is a low or zero passage frequency.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a processing circuit configured to;

calculate a number of passages based on passage history information;

retrieve width information related to the passages from a memory;

search a navigation route based on the number of passages and the width information related to the passages.

2. The information process apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured to calculate the number of passages based on movement condition of mobile object.

3. The information process apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured to register a place based on user input, make icon information for displaying the icon at the place on a map.

4. The information process apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the icon information includes a plurality of categorized icon information type.

5. The information process apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured to register a place based on online information.

6. The information process apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured to display the route information on a map, and to change the route information based on the number of passages.

7. The information process apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured to set a predetermined area on a map, and to search the navigation route based on the predetermined area on the map.

8. The information process apparatus according to claim 7,

wherein the predetermined area is an exception area;

and

wherein the circuitry is configured to search the navigation route outside of the predetermined area.

9. The information process apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the circuitry is configured to search the navigation route based on condition information of each position in a map.

10. The information process apparatus according to claim 9, wherein

the condition information includes at least one of a length, a width, a type, a structure, a gradient of the individual position in the map.

11. An information processing method comprising:

calculating a number of passages based on passage history information;

retrieving width information related to the passages from a memory;

searching a navigation route based on the number of passages and the width information related to the passages.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a set of computer-executable instructions stored thereon, the set of instructions causing a computer to perform a method comprising:

calculating a number of passages based on passage history information;

retrieving width information related to the passages from a memory;

searching a navigation route based on the number of passages and the width information related to the passages.